ABSTRACT

Between October 1928 and June 1929, Le Guide du Concert published a series of 28 interviews with composers, including Roussel, Respighi, Mascagni, Koechlin, d’Indy, Schmitt, Ibert, Poulenc and Honegger. The interview below took place a few days before the first public performance of the Concert champêtre by Wanda Landowska and the Orchestre Symphonique de Paris, conducted by Pierre Monteux in the Salle Pleyel.