Marie Joseph Léon Désiré Pâque (21 May 1867 – 20 November 1939) was a Belgian composer, organist and academic.
Life
Pâque was born in
Liège
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The city is situated in the valley of the Meuse, in the east of Belgium, not far from b ...
, and studied organ and composition at
Liège Conservatory. His attempt to found a conservatory in
Sofia
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in 1897 was not successful. Between 1900 and 1906 he taught at
Athens Conservatory
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History
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and in Brussels and Paris; from 1906 until 1909 he was professor of organ at
Lisbon
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Conservatory. He later lived in Germany, Switzerland and England. In 1914 he settled in Paris. He retired to
Bessancourt
Bessancourt () is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France. Bessancourt station has rail connections to Persan, Saint-Leu-la-Forêt and Paris.
Population
Twin Towns
Bessancourt is twinned with:
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near Paris, where he died in 1939.
["Désiré Pâque"]
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Compositions
Early in his career he developed his own style, which he called ''l'adjonction constante d'éléments musicaux nouveaux'' ("constant addition of new musical elements"), in which several melodies follow one another. He wrote: "As the piece proceeds, the themes are repeated, transposed, augmented and diminished, but they are never distorted or mutilated by fragmentation." This technique was first heard in his Organ Symphony Op. 67, composed in 1910.
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References
External links
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1867 births
1939 deaths
Musicians from Liège
Belgian classical composers
Belgian classical organists