Romantic Pieces Volume 1

Hélène de Montgeroult has left a work that counts in the history of piano music. It is especially the 114 studies and the variations, fugues, fantasies of the Complete Course which constitute an essential link between the generation of Mozart and Clementi and that of Schumann, Mendelssohn and Chopin, that the studies announce. Extreme harmonic sensitivity, tonal route already romantic, invention of pianistic idioms that will be found among the romantic, the art of Hélène de Montgeroult places it at the forefront of his generation, that of Dussek, Steibelt, Cramer, Field and Hummel but without ever giving way, like some of them, to the easy effects of the picturesque and potpourri pieces. Jérôme Dorival