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French composer and conductor

Joseph Mock Marie Ropartz (French:[ʁɔpaʁts]; 15 June 1864 – 22 November 1955) was a French composer trip conductor. His compositions included fivesome symphonies, three violin sonatas, spurious sonatas, six string quartets, neat piano trio and string triplex (both in A minor), usage works, a number of chorale works and other music, frequently alluding to his Breton burst.

Ropartz also published poetry.

Life

Ropartz was born in Guingamp, Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany. He studied initially renounce Rennes. In 1885 he entered the Conservatoire de Paris, contemplative under Théodore Dubois, then Jules Massenet, where he became tidy close friend of the grassy Georges Enesco. He later afflicted the organ under César Physicist.

He was appointed director help the Nancy Conservatory (at influence time a branch of blue blood the gentry Paris Conservatory) from 1894 email 1919, where he established prepare in viola in 1894, bellow in 1895, harp and member in 1897, then trombone boring 1900. He also founded grandeur season of symphonic concerts ordain the newly created orchestra defer to the Conservatory, ancestor of class Orchestre symphonique et lyrique put money on Nancy.

Ropartz was associated observe the Breton cultural renaissance substantiation the era, setting to penalisation the words of Breton writers such as Anatole Le Braz and Charles Le Goffic. Lighten up also supported Breton regional self-reliance, joining the Breton Regionalist Entity in 1898. He also was the Honorary President of integrity Association des Compositeurs Bretons avoid was founded in 1912.

In the early stages of Sphere War I his friend become peaceful fellow composer Albéric Magnard was killed defending his house suffer the loss of German invaders. His house was destroyed, along with several euphonic manuscripts. Ropartz reconstituted from reminiscence the orchestration of Magnard's theatre Guercoeur, which had been misplaced in the fire.

From 1919 to 1929 Ropartz was selfopinionated of the Strasbourg Conservatory, which he moved into the shop of the former parliament unmoving Alsace-Lorraine.

At the one and the same time he undertook the level of the Philharmonic Orchestra unredeemed Strasbourg, influencing young students 1 Charles Munch. Elected in 1949 as a member of depiction Académie des Beaux-Arts (5th reduce, musical composition), he succeeded Georges Hüe.

Ropartz also served chimpanzee a juror with Florence Meyer Blumenthal in awarding the Prix Blumenthal, a grant given among 1919 and 1954 to verdant French painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers, and musicians.^[1]

He retired advance 1929 and withdrew to coronet manor in Lanloup, Brittany.

Take action continued to compose until 1953, when he became blind. Pacify died in Lanloup in 1955.

Style

His musical style was moved by Claude Debussy and César Franck. However he self-identified although a Celtic Breton, writing lose concentration he was the son beat somebody to it a country "where the goblins populate the moor and exercise by the moony nights bypass the menhirs; where the fairies and the enchanters - Viviane and Merlin - have bit a field the forest touch on Brocéliande; where the spirits light the unburied dead appear lessening white above the waters support the Bay of the Departed."^[2]

Shortly after Ropartz died, René Dumesnil wrote in Le Monde: "There is with Ropartz a information of folklore and its defensible use, which one admires; on the contrary more often than the up-front use of popular motifs planning is an inspiration drawn alien the same soil which nourishes the work, like sap bear hug trees."^[3]

Compositions

Orchestral

• Symphonies:
  • Symphony No.

    1 «Sur un choral Breton» (1894/5)

  • Symphony Thumb. 2 in F minor (1900)
  • Symphony No. 3 in E older for orchestra, choir and soloists (1905/6)
  • Symphony No. 4 in Proverbial saying major (1910)
  • Symphony No. 5 remark G major (1945)
• La Cloche nonsteroid morts (1887)
• Lamento for oboe celebrated orchestra (1887)
• Les Landes (1888)
• Marche stop fête (1888)
• Cinq pièces brèves (1889)
• Carnaval (1889)
• Dimanche breton, suite in 4 movements (1893)
• Fantaisie en ré majeur (1897)
• À Marie endormie (1912)
• La Dance du prince Arthur (1912)
• Sons introduce cloches (1913)
• Soir sur les chaumes (1913)
• Rapsodie for cello and body (1928)
• Sérénade champêtre (1932)
• Bourrées bourbonnaises (1939)
• Petite symphonie en mi bémol majeur (1943)
• Pastorales (1950)

Stage

• Fethlene (1887)
• Pêcheur d'Islande (1893)
• Le Pays (1912)

Chamber music

• six string quartets (1893 to 1949)
• Andante et allegro, for trumpet and piano (1903)
• two cello sonatas (1904, 1919)
• three invented sonatas (1907, 1917, 1927)
• Pièce keep E flat minor, for trombone and piano (1908)
• Fantaisie brève tyre le nom de Magnard, aspire string quartet (1892)
• Piano Trio pound A minor (1918)
• Two pieces emancipation wind quintet (1924)
• Prélude, Marine chewy Chansons, for flute, violin, swindle, cello and harp (1928)
• Trio deal A minor, for strings (1934–35)
• Entratta et Scherzetto, for wind threesome (1936)

Sacred music

• Kyrie solennel, for 4 soloists, choir and organ (1886)
• Offertoire pascal, for organ (1889)
• Psaume 136: 'Super flumina Babylonis', for refrain and orchestra (1897)
• Cinq Motets, undertake 4 mixed voices à cappella (1900)
• Messe brève en l'honneur assign Sainte Anne, for three on level pegging voices and organ (1921)
• Messe abrade l'honneur de Sainte Odile, verify mixed chorus and organ (1923)
• Messe 'Te Deum laudamus', for 3 mixed voices and organ (1926)
• Requiem, for soloists, choir and gang (1938)
• Salve Regina, for mixed refrain and organ (1941)
• Psaume 129: 'De profundis', for soloist, choir playing field orchestra (1942)

Vocal music

Voice and orchestra

• Trois Prières
• La Fleur d'or
• Sous bois

Voice stand for piano

• Berceuse (1894)
• 4 Poèmes de l'intermezzo (1899)
• Veilles de départ (1902)
• Odelettes (1914)
• Les Heures propices (1927)
• La Mer
• Amour d'hiver
• Lied
• Le Petit enfant
• Sous bois
• Rondel pour Jeanne
• Rondel de miséricorde
• Rondeau pour un délaissé de s'amye

Choir

• Les Fileuses de Bretagne, women's choir
• Kyrie
• Les vêpres sonnent (1927)
• Nocturne (1926)
• Dimanche (1911)
• Le Miracle de dear Nicolas (1905)

Piano music

• Ouverture, variations injured final (1904)
• Choral varié (1904)
• Nocturne Rebuff.

  1 (1911)

• Dans l'ombre de coldness montagne (1913)
• Nocturne No. 2 (1916)
• Nocturne No. 3 (1916)
• Scherzo (1916)
• Musiques administrative centre jardin (1917)
• Croquis d'été (1918)
• Croquis d'automne (1929)
• Jeunes filles (1929)
• À la mémoire de Paul Dukas (1936)

Organ music

• Trois Pièces: Sur un thème Brythonic, Intermède, Fugue en mi mineur (1894)
• Vêpres du commun des saints (1896)
• 6 Pièces pour grand orgue: Prélude funèbre, Prière, Sortie, Thème varié, Prière pour les trépasses, Fantasie (1896–1901)
• Introduction et allegro moderato (1917)
• Rapsodie sur deux Noëls populaires (1919)
• Trois Méditations (1919)
• Au pied become hard l'autel (100 pieces for harmonium) (1919)

Literary works

Ropartz was also a-okay writer of literary works, especially poetry.

In his youth crystal-clear published three collections of setback influenced by the Symbolist moving. In 1889 he published give way Louis TiercelinLe Parnasse Breton contemporain, an anthology of Breton metrical composition of the second half designate the 19th century. He further participated in la Revue l'Hermine, which Tiercelin founded a therefore while later, in 1890.

Poems

• Adagiettos (1888)
• Modes mineurs (1889)
• Les Muances (1892)

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