Georges Barrère - Nocturne (1913) [Score]

Georges Barrère, Nocturne for piano and flute (1913). Dedicated to Paul Taffanel. Flute: Kenneth Smith Piano: Paul Rhodes A Song Without Words: The Legacy of Paul Taffanel ℗ 2013 Divine Art Georges Barrère (Bordeaux, October 31, 1876 - New York, June 14, 1944) was a French flutist. Georges Barrère was the son of a cabinetmaker, Gabriel Barrère, and Marie Périne Courtet, an illiterate farmer’s daughter from Guilligomarc’h. They married in 1874. They had previously had a son Étienne, out of wedlock, in 1872. George did not regard his parents as musical although his father wished he had been a tenor instead of a carpenter. In 1879, the family moved to Paris. By the year 1886, they had moved to Épernon near Chartres. The story goes that Étienne had a tin whistle which he discarded in favour of a violin. Georges got the whistle and later boasted that he had become a virtuoso on the six-holed instrument while