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Charles Wakefield Cadman (December 24, 1881 – December 30, 1946) was an American composer. For 40 years he worked closely with Nelle Richmond Eberhart, who wrote most of the texts to his songs, including Four American Indian Songs, as well as the librettos for his five operas, two of which were based on Indian themes. He composed in a wide variety of genres.
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A Mad Empress Remembers Tone Poem for Cello and Piano (1944)
Dedication: In gratitude - to Gregor Piatigorsky
Allegro pomposo - Andante con amore - Andante fantastico - Tempo di Valse - Molto appassionato - Misterioso, molto espressivo - Allegro pomposo - Vivo - Lento doloroso - Allegro con delirio - Tempo I - Quasi Valse triste
Douglas Moore, cello & Paula Ennis-Dwyer, piano
Program notes by Charles Wakefield Cadman
"This work find its inspiration or basis in the tragic and romantic story of the ill-fate Carlotta and her "Emperor" Maximilian.
The first movement reflects Carlotta's great love and early romance with the young royal Austrian; her recalling (between a moment of a coming madness lightly hinted at in this movement) the pomp and circumstance of the Belgian court, a snatch of a waltz she still remembers, and her undying affection for Maximilian. These are memories of an aged woman in Paris.
The second movement is colored by memories of the half Spanish, half Indian court at the Palace of Chapultepec in Mexico.
The third movement reflects Carlotta's grief; her hopelessness in recapturing all that she wishes to recall, and also her madness, now upon her".
Charlotte of Belgium (French: Marie Charlotte Amélie Augustine Victoire Clémentine Léopoldine; 7 June 1840 – 19 January 1927), known by the Spanish version of her name, Carlota, was by birth a princess of Belgium and member of the House of Wettin in the branch of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (as such she was also styled Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duchess in Saxony). As the wife of Archduke Maximilian of Austria, Viceroy of Lombardy–Venetia and later Emperor of Mexico, she became Archduchess of Austria (in 1857) and Empress of Mexico (in 1864). She was daughter, granddaughter, sister, sister in-law, cousin and wife of reigning or deposed sovereigns throughout Europe and Mexico.
From the beginning of her marriage, she feuded with Empress Elisabeth in Vienna, and was glad when her husband was posted to Italy as Viceroy of Lombardy–Venetia. At this time, he was selected by the Emperor Napoleon III as a figurehead for his proposed French empire in Mexico, and Charlotte overcame her husband's doubts about the plan. Maximilian and Charlotte duly arrived to Mexico City in 1864, but their reign lasted a little over three years. She assisted her husband, who let her rule as regent during his absences from Mexico, for which reason she is considered the first woman to rule in the Americas. When Napoleon III ordered the withdrawal of French military aid intended to support Maximilian, the situation of the Mexican imperial couple became untenable.
On her own initiative, Charlotte decided to go personally to Europe in order to attempt a final approach to Paris and the Vatican. She landed in France in August 1866, but suffered the successive refusals of both Napoleon III and Pope Pius IX. In Rome, the failure of her mission appeared to compromise her mental health to the point that an alienist doctor advocated the confinement of Charlotte in Miramare Castle. It was during her stay under house arrest that Maximilian was deposed and executed by Benito Juárez in June 1867. Unaware that she was now a widow, Charlotte was brought back to Belgium and confined successively in the Pavilion de Tervueren (in 1867 and again during 1869–1879), the Palace of Laeken (during 1867–1869) and finally at Bouchout Castle in Meise (from 1879), where she remained for the next 48 years in a deleterious mental state, giving rise to much speculation ever since, before dying in 1927 aged 86.
Charles Wakefield Cadman (December 24, 1881 – December 30, 1946) was an American composer. For 40 years he worked closely with Nelle Richmond Eberhart, who wrote most of the texts to his songs, including Four American Indian Songs, as well as the librettos for his five operas, two of which were based on Indian themes. He composed in a wide variety of genres.
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A Mad Empress Remembers Tone Poem for Cello and Piano (1944)
Dedication: In gratitude - to Gregor Piatigorsky
Allegro pomposo - Andante con amore - Andante fantastico - Tempo di Valse - Molto appassionato - Misterioso, molto espressivo - Allegro pomposo - Vivo - Lento doloroso - Allegro con delirio - Tempo I - Quasi Valse triste
Douglas Moore, cello & Paula Ennis-Dwyer, piano
Program notes by Charles Wakefield Cadman
"This work find its inspiration or basis in the tragic and romantic story of the ill-fate Carlotta and her "Emperor" Maximilian.
The first movement reflects Carlotta's great love and early romance with the young royal Austrian; her recalling (between a moment of a coming madness lightly hinted at in this movement) the pomp and circumstance of the Belgian court, a snatch of a waltz she still remembers, and her undying affection for Maximilian. These are memories of an aged woman in Paris.
The second movement is colored by memories of the half Spanish, half Indian court at the Palace of Chapultepec in Mexico.
The third movement reflects Carlotta's grief; her hopelessness in recapturing all that she wishes to recall, and also her madness, now upon her".
Charlotte of Belgium (French: Marie Charlotte Amélie Augustine Victoire Clémentine Léopoldine; 7 June 1840 – 19 January 1927), known by the Spanish version of her name, Carlota, was by birth a princess of Belgium and member of the House of Wettin in the branch of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (as such she was also styled Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duchess in Saxony). As the wife of Archduke Maximilian of Austria, Viceroy of Lombardy–Venetia and later Emperor of Mexico, she became Archduchess of Austria (in 1857) and Empress of Mexico (in 1864). She was daughter, granddaughter, sister, sister in-law, cousin and wife of reigning or deposed sovereigns throughout Europe and Mexico.
From the beginning of her marriage, she feuded with Empress Elisabeth in Vienna, and was glad when her husband was posted to Italy as Viceroy of Lombardy–Venetia. At this time, he was selected by the Emperor Napoleon III as a figurehead for his proposed French empire in Mexico, and Charlotte overcame her husband's doubts about the plan. Maximilian and Charlotte duly arrived to Mexico City in 1864, but their reign lasted a little over three years. She assisted her husband, who let her rule as regent during his absences from Mexico, for which reason she is considered the first woman to rule in the Americas. When Napoleon III ordered the withdrawal of French military aid intended to support Maximilian, the situation of the Mexican imperial couple became untenable.
On her own initiative, Charlotte decided to go personally to Europe in order to attempt a final approach to Paris and the Vatican. She landed in France in August 1866, but suffered the successive refusals of both Napoleon III and Pope Pius IX. In Rome, the failure of her mission appeared to compromise her mental health to the point that an alienist doctor advocated the confinement of Charlotte in Miramare Castle. It was during her stay under house arrest that Maximilian was deposed and executed by Benito Juárez in June 1867. Unaware that she was now a widow, Charlotte was brought back to Belgium and confined successively in the Pavilion de Tervueren (in 1867 and again during 1869–1879), the Palace of Laeken (during 1867–1869) and finally at Bouchout Castle in Meise (from 1879), where she remained for the next 48 years in a deleterious mental state, giving rise to much speculation ever since, before dying in 1927 aged 86.
