WILHEM LATCHOUMIA 31 Your programme highlights these composers’ genuine regional roots and also reminds us of the importance of the ties that have existed between French and Spanish artists. There were indeed genuine exchanges, at the beginning of the twentieth century, between musicians on both sides of the Pyrenees. Albéniz taught at the Schola Cantorum and counted Séverac among his pupils, while Mompou came to study in Paris and was profoundly influenced by Debussy. These affinities are evident in his Scènes d’enfants, as well as in another cycle composed shortly afterwards, Charmes, which responds to the Épigraphes antiques by the French master. This journey was therefore, for me, an opportunity to celebrate these dialogues and to pay tribute to figures who, though often overlooked, are nonetheless essential to the piano repertoire; composers who, in their search for authenticity, sought above all to give meaning to their music, and thereby to their lives.
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