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Figure Humaine
''Figure humaine'' (''Human Figure''), FP (catalogue), 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 (poem), '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 Francis Salabert, 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cantata
A cantata (; ; literally "sung", past participle feminine singular of the Italian language, Italian verb ''cantare'', "to sing") is a vocal music, vocal Musical composition, composition with an musical instrument, instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movement (music), movements, often involving a choir. The meaning of the term changed over time, from the simple single-voice Madrigal (music), 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 cantatas; 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 Teleman ... [...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 fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quatre Motets Pour Un Temps De Pénitence
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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 Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ... 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 f ... [...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 ; plural: Missae breves) usually refers to a mass (music), Mass composition that is short because part of the text of the Mass ordinary that is usually set to music in a full Mass (liturgy), Mass is left out, or because its execution time is rel ..., 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, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Hell
Henri Hell, pseudonym for José Enrique Lasry (30 October 1916 – 6 April 1991) was a French art, music and literary critic, as well as a musicologist. As a literary critic, Henri Hell collaborated with ', ''Combat'', '' la Table Ronde'', '' l'Express'', '' Nouvel Observateur'', ''Le Monde'', the '' Nouvelle Revue Française''. He assisted Max-Pol Fouchet 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 The () was originally a French gazette and literary magazine first published in the 17th century, but after several incarnations has evolved as a publisher, and is now part of the Éditions Gallimard publishing group. The gazette was publis ...''. 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 cœu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Collaer
Paul Collaer (8 June 1891 – 10 December 1989) was a Belgian musicologist, pianist, and conductor of Flemish background who was born in Boom and died in Brussels. 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, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Woodgate
Hubert Leslie Woodgate (15 April 190218 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 (1934), 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 conducted the Kentucky Minstrels, a popular singing group on BBC radio during and immediately after the War. On Palm Sunday, 25 March 1945, Wood ... [...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. # 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). # 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. # 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 Pitt, m ... [...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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ginette Neveu
Ginette Neveu (11 August 191928 October 1949) was a French violinist. At the age of 15, she beat David Oistrakh to win the Polish Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition. She made several concert tours and was considered to be 'one of the finest violinists of her generation'. Following an interruption to her career during the second world war, Second World War she resumed playing concerts more widely and made a small number of recordings. She died in the 1949 Air France Lockheed Constellation crash on São Miguel Island, in the Azores at the age of 30. Early life Neveu was born in Paris on 11 August 1919 into a musical family. Neveu's father Maurice Alcide Auguste Neveu was a stockbroker, while her mother, Marie Jeanne Ronze-Neveu, an accomplished violinist, was her first teacher. The composer and organist Charles-Marie Widor was her great-uncle, and her younger brother Jean-Paul Neveu, Jean-Paul became a classical pianist, and her eventual accompanist. Neveu made her solo debut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
