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Cumuli foundation is making musicological research in life and work of the French guitarist/composer Napoléon Coste (1805-1883). Coste came to Paris in 1828, was a friend of Fernando Sor, gave concerts as a guitar virtuoso and composed an oeuvre of 53 opus numbers.
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About the life of Coste more and more information comes to light. His complete works are published by Editions Chanterelle, edited by Simon Wynberg. His compositions are recorded on CD by Naxos, played by a.o. Jeffrey McFadden. Cumuli foundation aims at the publication of ‘Napoléon Coste, composer and guitarist in the romantic era’ with a biographic chapter, a chaptor on the analysis and dating of his complete works for guitar solo and a handbook on interpretation, instruments, recordings, catalogues and a bibliography.
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In a recent visit to several archives in Paris musicologist Ari van Vliet discovered interesting material on Napoléon Coste. At the age of seven young Coste was with his father, J.F.Coste, in the Northern Army and was present at the evacuation of Langeoog in 1813 when he was an eight year old boy, armed with a pistol. From then on he was in Delfzijl, Holland, when this town was sieged by the Dutch until the French army left the fortress in peace on 23 Mai 1814. His Souvenirs op.18 Les Bords du Rhin, op.19 Delfzil, op.20 Le Zuyderzee refer to this period in his life. Ari van Vliet also found the missing op.1 of Napoléon Coste with the title ‘Aux Parisiens des 27, 28 et 29 juillet 1830, a song for voice and piano, the sheet music of ‘Le Petit Ange rose’ and ‘Lolla’ for voice and piano, an arrangement for voice and guitar by Coste of Schuberts ‘Serenade’, and an unknown song of Coste for voice and piano ‘L’Enfant au Berceau’. They will be published on further notice. The image of Coste being a guitar composer is due to correction: eighteen of his compositions are written for voice, piano or oboe.
This is a ‘slow-site’ so take your time!
So far, only one photograph of Coste was known, on which he was pictured by Disdéri in Paris, with four of his guitars. New is this photograph, taken by his friend and pupil Soffren Degen, on which he sits with the seven string guitar of the latter. This photo, recently discovered in Denmark, is probably taken in 1855 when Degen visited Coste in Paris.
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