Vincent Bouchot (born 1966 in
Toulouse
Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Pa ...
) is a French composer and musicologist. For many years, he sang as
baritone with the
Ensemble Clément Janequin The Ensemble Clément Janequin is a French early music ensemble founded in 1978 and specializing in the chansons of the Renaissance and early Baroque.
The founder, and leader, is the countertenor Dominique Visse. The group has recorded almost excl ...
.
He has provided incidental music to several cabarets and theatre productions including ''
Ubu Roi
''Ubu Roi'' (; "Ubu the King" or "King Ubu") is a play by French writer Alfred Jarry, then 23 years old. It was first performed in Paris in 1896, by Aurélien Lugné-Poe's Théâtre de l'Œuvre at the Nouveau-Théâtre (today, the Théâtre de ...
'' by
Alfred Jarry at the
Opéra-Comique/
Péniche Opéra in 2002.
['']Les Inrockuptibles
''Les Inrockuptibles'' () is a French cultural magazine. Started as a monthly magazine in 1986, it became weekly in 1995. Now it is a monthly again, since 2021. In the beginning, rock and roll, rock music was the magazine's primary focus, though ...
'', 333–338, 2002 He produced a full opera, ''Brèves de comptoir'', in 2005.
Recorded works include:
* a modern take on ''Les Cris de Paris'' on the Ensemble Clément Janequin's album ''L'écrit du Cri'', 2009
* five
Galgenlieder
''Galgenlieder'' () is a collection of poems by Christian Morgenstern. Following ten years of writing work, it was first published in March 1905 by Bruno Cassirer.
Poems
* Titelansage
* Motto. Dem Kinde Im Manne
* Versuch Einer Einleitung
* Wie Di ...
"Mondendinge" ; "Der Hecht" ; "Die Mitternachtsmaus" ; "Das Wasser" ; "Galgenkindes Wiegenlied", sung by
Sandrine Piau on the album ''Après un rêve,'' 2011
* mélodie ''Le Souvenir de Jean Quéval, (1913–1990),'' composed for
Françoise Pollet
Françoise Pollet (born 10 September 1949 in Boulogne Billancourt) is a French soprano. She made her debut in 1983 at the Lübeck Opera as Marschallin in the Rosenkavalier of Richard Strauss.Aspects de la mélodie française: Concours internation ...
, 2003
Published works include:
* Vincent Bouchot, "De la musique dans l'oeuvre de
Georges Perec
Georges Perec (; 7 March 1936 – 3 March 1982) was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group. His father died as a soldier early in the Second World War and his mother was killed in the Hol ...
: frequentations, themes, structures", in ''Cahiers Georges Perec 4'' (Éditions du Limon, 1990), 97–120.
References
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1966 births
Living people
Musicians from Toulouse
20th-century French composers
21st-century French composers
French male composers
French opera composers
French operatic baritones
French operatic tenors
20th-century French male musicians
21st-century French male musicians