Petite Symphonie (Gounod)

The Petite Symphonie in B-flat major is a four-movement work by Charles Gounod, first performed in 1885.

Gounod had composed two symphonies for full orchestra in the 1850s but had since then generally concentrated on opera, songs, and religious music.

[1] At the request of a Parisian wind ensemble, the Société de musique de chambre pour instruments à vent [fr], led by the flautist Paul Taffanel, he wrote a nonet for flute and pairs of oboes, clarinets, horns and bassoons.

The work was first given at the Salle Pleyel in Paris on 30 April 1885.

[1] The work, which plays for about twenty minutes, is in four movements:[2] This article about a composition for a chamber music group is a stub.