Poème was written in response to a request from Eugène Ysaÿe for a violin concerto. Chausson felt unequal to the task of a concerto, writing to Ysaÿe: I hardly know where to begin with a concerto, which is a huge undertaking, the devil's own task. But I can cope with a shorter work. It will be in very free form with several passages in which the violin plays alone.
Date of composition | 1896 in Florence, Metropolitan City of Florence, Italy |
Premiered | 1896, December 27th (Conservatoire) in Nancy, France |
First published | 1898 |
Dedicated to | Eugène Ysaÿe |
Catalogue | Op. 25 |
Approx. duration | 16 minutes |
Instruments |
Violin
Orchestra |
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