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Figure Humaine
''Figure humaine'' (''Human Figure''), FP 120, by Francis Poulenc is a cantata for double mixed choir of 12 voices composed in 1943 on texts by Paul Éluard including " 'Liberté". Written during the Nazi occupation of France, it was premiered in London in English by the BBC in 1945. It was first performed in French in 1946 in Brussels, then in Paris on 22 May 1947. The work was published by Éditions Salabert. Cherished as the summit of the composer's work and a masterpiece by musical critics, the cantata is a hymn to ''Liberté'', victorious over tyranny. Genesis Meeting with Paul Éluard The meeting of Francis Poulenc and Paul Éluard dates from 1916 or 1917(p. 122) during the First World War, at the Parisian bookstore of his friend Adrienne Monnier. When the composer Georges Auric met the writer around 1919, he suggested to Poulenc to set texts by Éluard to music.(p. 123) Éluard was the only surrealist writer who tolerated music,(p. 95) and the musicolog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cantata
A cantata (; ; literally "sung", past participle feminine singular of the Italian verb ''cantare'', "to sing") is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir. The meaning of the term changed over time, from the simple single-voice madrigal of the early 17th century, to the multi-voice "cantata da camera" and the "cantata da chiesa" of the later part of that century, from the more substantial dramatic forms of the 18th century to the usually sacred-texted 19th-century cantata, which was effectively a type of short oratorio. Cantatas for use in the liturgy of church services are called church cantata or sacred cantata; other cantatas can be indicated as secular cantatas. Several cantatas were, and still are, written for special occasions, such as Christmas cantatas. Christoph Graupner, Georg Philipp Telemann and Johann Sebastian Bach composed cycles of church cantatas for the occasions of the liturgical year. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beaulieu Sur Dordogne (2003)
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Stabat Mater (Poulenc)
Stabat Mater, FP 148, is a musical setting of the Stabat Mater sequence composed by Francis Poulenc in 1950. Background Poulenc wrote the piece in response to the death of his friend, artist Christian Bérard; he considered writing a Requiem for Bérard, but, after returning to the shrine of the Black Virgin of Rocamadour, he selected the medieval Stabat Mater text. Poulenc's setting, scored for soprano solo, mixed chorus, and orchestra, premiered on the 13th of June 1951 at the Strasbourg Festival. It was well received throughout Europe and in the United States where it won the New York Critic's Circle Award for Best Choral Work of the year.Hell. Structure The Stabat Mater is divided into twelve movements, which vary dramatically in character from somber to light and frivolous, even on the most serious of texts. All the movements, though, are relatively brief; Robert Shaw's Telarc recording runs just under 30 minutes, with the longest movement taking just over four min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quatre Motets Pour Un Temps De Pénitence
' (''Four Penitential Motets''), FP 97, are four sacred motets composed by Francis Poulenc in 1938–39. He wrote them on Latin texts for penitence, scored for four unaccompanied voices. Structure and texts The four motets are: # Timor et tremor # Vinea mea electa # Tenebrae factae sunt # Tristis est anima mea The text for the first motet, Timor et tremor (Great fear and trembling), combines verses from psalms 54 and 30, which Orlando de Lassus had also set as a motet. The other three motets are based on three responsories for the Holy Week: "Vinea mea electa" (Vine that I loved as my own), a responsory for the matins of Good Friday, "Tenebrae factae sunt" (Darkness fell upon the Earth), a responsory for the matins of Holy Saturday, and "Tristis est anima mea" (Sad is my soul and sorrowful), a responsory for the matins of Maundy Thursday. A performance of the work will last for approximately 13 minutes. History Poulenc returned to sacred music first in 1937 when he c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chanson à Boire (Poulenc)
''Chanson à boire'',This work should not be confused with ''Chanson à boire'', the second of the eight '' Chansons gaillardes'', FP 42, a work by the same composer on a different text. (Drinking song), FP 31, is a choral work by Francis Poulenc, composed in 1922 on an anonymous text of the 17th century for a four-part men's chorus a cappella. It was published first by Rouart-Lerolle, but today by Salabert. History ''Chanson à boire'' is Poulenc's first choral work, commissioned by a student choir, the Glee Club of Harvard University in the United States. Upon completion, Poulenc sent them the score. In an interview with Claude Rostand dated 1954, he said: Twenty-eight years separate the composition of the work and its first performance in The Hague. Poulenc states: "I was ready to do a lot of retouching. What was not my amazement (...) of not having one note to change!." Structure The work is written for an unaccompanied four-part men's chorus A men's chorus or mal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Messe En Sol Majeur
' (Mass in G major), FP 89, is a missa brevis by Francis Poulenc. He set most parts of the Latin mass to music in 1937, scored for a mixed choir a cappella. History Poulenc turned to sacred music first in 1937 when he composed the mass ''Messe en sol majeur''. He dedicated it to the memory of his father who had died some years before. He set all the parts of the Latin mass, with the exception of the Credo, in 1937, scored for a soprano soloist and a mixed choir a cappella. As he omitted the Credo, it is technically a missa brevis, in five movements: : I Kyrie (Animé et très rythmé) : II Gloria (Très animé) : III Sanctus (Très allant et doucement joyeux) : IV Benedictus (Calme mais sans lenteur) : V Agnus Dei (Très pur, très clair et modéré) The choral writing for unaccompanied choir has been described as of "cool purity". The first performance was sung in Paris on 3 April 1938 by Les Chœurs de Lyon. There are numerous recordings of the mass; the earliest may be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Hell
Henri Hell, pseudonym for José Enrique Lasry (1916 – April 1991) was a French art, music and literary critic, as well as a musicologist. Biography As a literary critic, Henri Hell collaborated with ', '' Combat'', ''la Table Ronde'', '' l'Express'', ''Nouvel Observateur'', ''Le Monde'', the ''Nouvelle Revue Française''. He assisted in the management of the magazine ''Fontaine''. He was a music critic at ''la Revue Musicale'', '' Nouveau Candide'', ''la Table Ronde'', the ''Gazette de Lausanne'', ''Mercure de France''. He directed the Fayard publishing house. Finally, he published a reference book on Francis Poulenc at the same house. He was also an art columnist. Bibliography *1944: ''La France au cœur : Chroniques de la servitude et de la libération, juin 1940–juin 1943'', foreword to the work by Max-Pol Fouchet *1956: ''L'amour vagabond'', contribution to the novel by , Paris, Plon *1957: ''Les Élus du Seigneur'', French translation of '' Go Tell It on the Mountain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Collaer
Paul Collaer (Boom, 8 June 1891 - Brussels, 10 December 1989) was a Belgian musicologist, pianist, and conductor of Flemish background. Through concerts and radio broadcastings, he played an important role in the popularization of 20th century music in Belgium. An early proponent of period instruments practice, he dedicated his last years to ethnomusicology. Life Collaer was born in a musical family. His parents, teachers and music lovers, raised him in Mechelen where he studied piano and harmony at the local music school (later renamed a conservatory). He also studied chemistry, receiving a doctorate from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (1909-1914). Collaer was an avid follower of Belgian musical life, attending operas at the theatre of La Monnaie, and concerts at the ''Concerts du Conservatoire'', the ''Concerts Ysaÿe'', and the ''Concerts Populaires''. From 1911, encouraged by his piano teacher Émile Bosquet, who was an early music lover, Collaer gave a dozen lectur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Woodgate
Hubert Leslie Woodgate (15 April 190018 May 1961) was an English choral conductor, composer, and writer of books on choral music. He was born in London, and educated at Westminster School and the Royal College of Music. During the 1920s, he was organist at several London churches. In 1928, he joined the BBC; in 1934, was appointed BBC Chorus Master, taking responsibility for the BBC Chorus, the BBC's large amateur chorus, and the Wireless Chorus and Wireless Singers, made up of professionals. That same year, he conducted the world and broadcast premiere of '' A Boy Was Born'' by Benjamin Britten. During the 1930s, he was Musical Director of the London and North Eastern Railway Musical Society: it comprised several amateur male-voice choirs which combined annually for a performance in London; he wrote music for them. He was director of the Kentucky Minstrels, a popular singing group on BBC radio during and immediately after the War. In 1946, he conducted the Wireless Chorus at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Chorus
There have been three choirs named The BBC Chorus in the history of the British Broadcasting Corporation. * 1. Today's BBC Symphony Chorus. Founded in 1928 as the BBC National Chorus, it changed its name to the BBC Chorus in 1932, before changing it again in 1935 to the BBC Choral Society (going on to adopt its current name in 1977). * 2. A 42-strong professional chorus developed in the 1930s. It would perform either alone or with the BBC Choral Society as a "choir within a choir". It was abolished in 1961 following changes to the BBC's choral structures. * 3. Today's BBC Singers. Founded in 1924 as a 16-strong BBC Wireless Chorus, and formally renamed The BBC Singers in 1935, it was expanded to 28 in 1961 and renamed The BBC Chorus as part of reforms to the BBC's choral set-up. It was then renamed The BBC Singers once more in 1972. History Founded in late 1922, the BBC's initial output was heavily music oriented. The General Manager, John Reith, made arrangements with Percy P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renaud Machart
Renaud Machart (born 22 March 1962) is a French journalist, music critic, radio producer and music producer. Biography Renaud Machart was born in Lannion, and first studied music under the direction of his father and then with Claudette Bohn, professor agrégée. He studied at the Ecole Nationale de Musique (ENM) in Saint-Brieuc and received a complete training in singing, piano, musical writing and chamber music at the conservatoire de Tours and musicology at the François Rabelais University of this same city from 1979 until 1982. Trained in the singing classes of Denis Manfroy and Marie-Thérèse Foix, he met in 1979, when he entered the first year of DEUG at the University of Tours, Jean-Pierre Ouvrard, musicologist and conductor, who invited him to join the Ensemble Jacques Moderne of Tours, specializing in the repertoire of Renaissance music. The following year, he replaced a sick singer from La Chapelle Royale for a recording of ''Pygmalion'' by Jean-Philippe Rameau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ginette Neveu
Ginette Neveu (11 August 191928 October 1949) was a French classical violinist. She was killed in a plane crash at the age of 30. Early life Neveu was born on 11 August 1919 in Paris into a musical family. Her brother Jean-Paul became a classical pianist (and her eventual accompanist) and the composer and organist Charles-Marie Widor was their great-uncle. Neveu's mother was her first teacher. Neveu made her solo debut at the age of seven with Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1 at the Salle Gaveau in Paris. In the same year she performed Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor with the Colonne Orchestra under Gabriel Pierné. Her parents then decided to send her to study under Line Talluel. Aged nine, she won first prize at the École Supérieure de Musique and the City of Paris Prix d'Honneur. After further studies with Jules Boucherit at the Conservatoire de Paris, she completed her training with instruction from George Enescu (who had been Yehudi Menuhin's teacher), Nadia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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