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List Of Composers From Brittany
A * René Abjean (born 1937) *Georges Arnoux (1891–1972) * Louis Aubert (1877–1968) B * Paul Bastide (1879–1962) *François Benoist (1794–1878) * Eugène Bigot (1888–1965) * Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray (1840–1910) C *Jacques Collebaut (Jacquet of Mantua) (1483–1559) *Jean Cras (1879–1932) D * Charles Delioux (1825–1915) * Maurice Duhamel (1884–1940) * Émile Durand (1830–1903) H *Lucien Haudebert (1877–1963) *Aristide Hignard (1822–1898) *Jean Huré (1877–1930) L * Théodore Lack (1846–1921) *Paul Ladmirault (1877–1944) *Jean Langlais (1907–1991) *Paul Le Flem (1881–1984) *Jef Le Penven (1919–1967) M * Victor Massé (1822–1884) *Léon Moreau (1870–1946) R *Rhené-Baton (1879–1940) *Théodore Ritter (1840–1887) *Joseph Guy Ropartz (1864–1955) S * Alice Sauvrezis (1866–1946) *Claude-Michel Schönberg (born 1944) *Gaston Serpette (1846–1904) * Alan Simon (born 1964) *Didier Squiban (born 1959) *Alan Stivell (born 1944) V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Abjean
René Abjean (born 22 November 1937) is a French composer associated with Breton revivalist choral music. Life Born in Brest, René Abjean made his début as a musician in the choir of Plouguerneau in 1953. At age 17, he created his first vocal work as part of a choral group ''Ar Baganiz'', a precursor of the Breton revivalism of ''An Triskell'', for which he made many arrangements. He co-founded the ''Cercle Breton de Brest'', and organised the ''Festival International des Cornemuses'' at Brest from 1969.Roland Becker, Laure Le Gurun, ''La Musique bretonne'' (Spézet/Speied: Coop Breizh, 2000). In 1974, he published a monograph on Breton music, wrote for several journals and contributed the chapter on Breton music in ''L'Histoire littéraire et culturelle de la Bretagne''. In 1975, he took over the leadership of the Ploudalmézeau choir, and in 1977 of that at Le Folgoët. These were later reconstituted as the "Ensemble Choral du Bout du Monde", which he led until he passed it to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Langlais
Jean François-Hyacinthe Langlais III (15 February 1907 – 8 May 1991) was a French composer of modern classical music, organist, and improviser. He described himself as "" ("Breton, of Catholic faith"). Biography Langlais was born in La Fontenelle (Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany), a small village near Mont Saint-Michel, France to Jean-Marie-Joseph Langlais II, a blacksmith and Flavie Canto, a seamstress. Langlais became blind due to glaucoma when he was only two years old and was sent to the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles (National Institute for Blind Children) in Paris, where he began to study the organ, with André Marchal. From there he progressed to the Paris Conservatoire, obtaining prizes in organ and studying composition with Marcel Dupré and Paul Dukas. He also studied improvisation with Charles Tournemire. After graduating, Langlais returned to the National Institute for Blind Children to teach, and also taught at the Schola Cantorum in Paris from 1961 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Stivell
Alan Stivell (; born Alan Cochevelou on 6 January 1944) is a French, Breton and Celtic musician and singer, songwriter, recording artist, and master of the Celtic harp. From the early 1970s, he revived global interest in the Celtic (specifically Breton) harp and Celtic music as part of world music. As a bagpiper and bombard player, he modernized traditional Breton music and singing in the Breton language. A precursor of Celtic rock, he is inspired by the union of the Celtic cultures and is a keeper of the Breton culture. Musical career Early life and career beginnings Alan Stivell was born in the Auvergnat town of Riom. His father, Georges (Jord in Breton) Cochevelou, was a civil servant in the French Ministry of Finance who achieved his dream of recreating a Celtic or Breton harp in the small town of Gourin, BrittanyJT Koch (ed). ''Celtic Culture. A Historical Encyclopaedia'' ABC-CLIO 2006 pp. 1627–1628 and his mother Fanny-Julienne Dobroushkess was of Lithuanian-Jewis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Didier Squiban
Didier Squiban (born 23 September 1959 in ''Ploudalmézeau'' (Finistère)) is a French pianist and composer. His musical work is a combination of traditional Breton music, jazz improvisation and classical romanticism and has added the piano to the repertoire of modern Breton music. He has been influenced by Duke Ellington, Keith Jarrett, Charlie Parker and Bill Evans as well as Debussy, Stravinsky, Erik Satie, Darius Milhaud, Schönberg and Glenn Gould. In 1993, he worked as the accompanying pianist for the Breton singer Yann-Fañch Kemener Yann-Fañch Loeiz Kemener (April 7, 1957 – March 16, 2019) was a traditional singer and ethnomusicologist from Brittany, born in Sainte-Tréphine, Côtes-d'Armor, France. Known in French as Jean-François Louis Quémener. He took part in re ... in the acclaimed live show '' Héritage des Celtes'' (The Heritage of the Celts) and thereby got closer in touch with the music of his home region Brittany. In 1997, on the island of hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Simon (musician)
Alan Simon (born 3 July 1964) is a French folk-rock musician and composer, best known for his rock operas performed with noted rock musicians guesting. Simon is associated with Breton Celticism, and his most ambitious works are typically on themes linked to Celtic myth and history. Simon has also branched out into film-making. Life Simon was born in Nantes, spending his early years in the moorlands of Goulaine. He left school at 15 to travel the world, supporting himself in a variety of trades. From 1979 to 1992 he lived in Asia. He also travelled twice around the world, financed by photographic work, journalism and musical performances. He also marketed his songs to rock musicians, having some success and building up contacts before he achieved fame. He currently resides near Nantes. Career Early work Aged 20, he wrote his first work, ''The Rebel Child'', which won the Grand Prize of the Society of Artists in France. In 1995, he composed his first musical story, ''Le Petit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaston Serpette
Henri Charles Antoine Gaston Serpette (4 November 1846 – 3 November 1904) was a French composer, best known for his operettas. After winning the prestigious Prix de Rome as a student at the Paris Conservatoire, he was expected to pursue a career in serious music. Instead, he turned to operetta, writing more than twenty full-length pieces between 1874 and 1900. He accepted some conducting work and also served as a critic and journalist for a number of French newspapers and magazines. Early life and work Serpette, the son of a rich industrialist, was born in Nantes, in western France. Lamb, Andrew"Serpette, (Henri Charles Antoine) Gaston" ''Grove Music Online'', accessed 16 June 2101 (requires subscription) He qualified as a lawyer before deciding to devote himself to music.Boulay, Dominique ''Musica'', November 1904. (Original French text reproduced at Musica et Memoria site, accessed 16 June 2010.) In 1868 he entered the composition class of Ambroise Thomas at the Paris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude-Michel Schönberg
Claude-Michel Schönberg (born 6 July 1944, in Vannes) is a French record producer, actor, singer, songwriter, and musical theatre composer, best known for his collaborations with lyricist Alain Boublil. Major works include ''La Révolution Française (rock opera), La Révolution Française'' (1973), ''Les Misérables (musical), Les Misérables'' (1980), ''Miss Saigon'' (1989), ''Martin Guerre (musical), Martin Guerre'' (1996), ''The Pirate Queen'' (2006), and ''Marguerite (musical), Marguerite'' (2008). Career Early career Schönberg began his career as a record producer and a singer. He wrote most of the music for the French musical and rock opera ''La Révolution Française (rock opera), La Révolution Française'', France's first rock opera, in 1973. He played the role of King Louis XVI of France, Louis XVI in the show's production that year. In 1974 he wrote the music and the lyrics of the song "Le Premier Pas", which became the number one hit in France that year, selling o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Sauvrezis
Alice Marie Marguerite Sauvrezis (4 April 1866 – 12 April 1946) was a French composer, pianist, choral conductor and concert organiser. As an active member of a group of Breton composers in Paris and as president of the Société Artistique et Littéraire de l'Ouest she promoted Celticist music and culture in France. Life and music Little is known about Alice Sauvrezis’ life. She was born in the Breton city of Nantes where she worked as a piano teacher. She studied first with César Franck and later with Ernest Guiraud and Paul Vidal. She joined the Paris-based Société Artistique et Littéraire de l'Ouest in 1891 and became its president in 1920. The society organised concerts of "Celtic" music (contemporary "classical" music in a Celticist style) and poetry readings in so-called "Soirées celtiques" at Sorbonne university that included the creative output of Breton, Norman, and Irish composers, writers and artists. During 1913–1914 she was also the only female member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Guy Ropartz
Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz (; 15 June 1864 – 22 November 1955) was a French composer and conductor. His compositions included five symphonies, three violin sonatas, cello sonatas, six string quartets, a piano trio and string trio (both in A minor), stage works, a number of choral works and other music, often alluding to his Breton heritage. Ropartz also published poetry. Life Ropartz was born in Guingamp, Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany. He studied initially at Rennes. In 1885 he entered the Conservatoire de Paris, studying under Théodore Dubois, then Jules Massenet, where he became a close friend of the young Georges Enesco. He later studied the organ under César Franck. He was appointed director of the Nancy Conservatory (at the time a branch of the Paris Conservatory) from 1894 to 1919, where he established classes in viola in 1894, trumpet in 1895, harp and organ in 1897, then trombone in 1900. He also founded the season of symphonic concerts with the newly created orchestra of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théodore Ritter
Toussaint Prévost, known under the pseudonym Théodore Ritter (5 April 1840 – 6 April 1886) was a 19th-century French composer and pianist. Biography The son of composer Eugène Prévost, he was a student of Hector Berlioz. He began his career as a baritone singer at La Monnaie in Brussels under the name ''Félix,'' then studied the piano with Franz Liszt. He quickly became a renowned pianist and began an international career under the name "Théodore Ritter". A member of the "Société des derniers concerts de Beethoven" (1860), he undertook a concert tour in Canada and the US with the violinist Frantz Jehin-Prume and the operatic singer Carlotta Patti in 1869–1870. Among others, he was the teacher of Isidore Philipp and Samuel Sanford. Married with the singer Alice Desgranges; his niece Gabrielle Ritter-Ciampi was also famous as a singer. A chevalier of the Légion d'honneur (1880), he is buried at cimetière du Père-Lachaise (20th division) He composed numero ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhené-Baton
René-Emmanuel Baton, known as Rhené-Baton (5 September 1879 – 23 September 1940), was a French conductor and composer. Though born in Courseulles-sur-Mer, Normandy, his family originated in Vitré in neighbouring Brittany. He returned to the region at the age of 19, and many of his compositions express his love of the area. He also had close relationships with composers of the Breton cultural renaissance, notably Guy Ropartz, Paul Le Flem, Paul Ladmirault and Louis Aubert. As a conductor he was notable for his attempts to expand appreciation of classical music. Conducting career He studied piano at the Paris Conservatory and learned music theory under André Gedalge. He began his career as a ''chef de chant'' at the Opera-Comique in 1907. He was then appointed as musical director of various orchestral groups, notably the ''Society of Saint Cecilia'' in Bordeaux and Angers ''Société populaire'' (1910–1912). In 1910 he was chosen to head the "Festival of French music" in Mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léon Moreau
Léon Moreau (13 July 1870 – 11 April 1946) was a French/Breton composer, winner of the second prize for composition in the Prix de Rome of 1899. Born in Brest, he was active as a piano teacher and composer in Brest and Paris. A member of the short-lived Association des Compositeurs Bretons, he also wrote a number of film scores for the silent era (1894-1929), and also saxophone pieces for Elise Hall. Works (selection) * Film scores **1913: '' L'Agonie de Byzance'' by Louis Feuillade **1922: '' The Agony of the Eagles'' by Dominique Bernard-Deschamps and Julien Duvivier **1928: ''Madame Récamier'' by Tony Lekain and Gaston Ravel Gaston Ravel (1878–1958) was a French screenwriter and film director. He made over sixty films, mostly during the silent era. In 1929 he co-directed the historical film ''The Queen's Necklace''.Klossner p.77 Selected filmography * '' The Knot'' ... Bibliography * Séverine Abhervé: ''Discours des compositeurs de musique sur le cinématographe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
