# Girl at the Piano \(The Tannhäuser Overture\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CÉZANNE, Paul]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 58 x 93 cm ## Commentary Girl at the Piano \(The Tannhäuser Overture\) c. 1869 Oil on canvas, 58 x 93 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg Colour was a passion of Paul Cézanne. He said that it was important for him to make fully fledged colours out of black and white, which, in the previous tradition, had been neutral and lacking in depth. In this early work, painted under the impression of Richard Wagner's music, the formulation of that task is already evident. <p> <table align=left cellpadding=5 border=1 width=320 bgcolor="\#99cccc"> <tr valign=middle><td><img src="/support/gif/listen.gif" border=0 valign=middle> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 14 minutes\):<BR><A HREF="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/19\_cent/wagner\_tannhauser\_overture.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><B>Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser, overture</b></a> </td></tr></table> ## Related artworks - [A Modern Olympia]() - [A Modern Olympia]() - [A Path by the Lake]() - [Afternoon in Naples]() - [Bather]() - [Bathers Beneath a Bridge]() - [Bathers]() - [Bathers]() - [Bathers]() - [Bathers]() - [Bathers]() - [Bathers]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()