Le Tasse by Benjamin Godard

Certainly, not every composer’s oeuvre counts hundreds of works. In some cases, it is good: everybody works in their own unique way and differently perceives rhythm of life, depending on where they live. A composer in a village would less likely write in a hurry – pastoral idyll doesn’t encourage such an attitude. A composer in a megalopolis, otherwise, would… Well, wait, it was a wrong example: composing in a megalopolis is just impossible.

Without respect to what I'm saying, even in such a big city French violinist and composer Benjamin Godard was able to write a huge amount of works – perhaps because no cars’ klaxons disturbed him (in his lifetime – 1849-1895 – automobiles weren’t invented). Godard’s works are known to be unequal in terms of noteworthiness, however I handpicked one of these you should certainly like. Download one of his most distinctive works here: Le Tasse. Danse des Bohémiens (Arrangement for Piano), Op.39.