Henri Duparc
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Henri Duparc (January 21, 1848 – February 12, 1933) was a French composer of the late Romantic period.
He was born in Paris. He studied piano with César Franck at the Jesuit College of Vaugirard and became one of his first composition pupils. In 1871, he joined with Saint-Saëns and Romain Bussine to found the Société Nationale de Musique.
Mental illness caused him to cease composing in 1885 and he destroyed most of his works. Best known are the orchestral poem Léonore and sixteen songs, of which the texts are from poets such as Baudelaire, Gautier, and Goethe.
He spent most of his later life in Switzerland and died in Mont-de-Marsan, France.
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[edit] Works
[edit] For piano
- Flying Leaves (1869)
[edit] Chamber Music
- Sonata for Cello and Piano (1867)
[edit] Orchestral Works
- To the Stars, symphonic poem (1874, rev. 1911)
- Léonore, symphonic poem (1875)
[edit] Songs
- 16 Mélodies: «Au pays où se fait la guerre», «La vie antérieure», «La vague et la cloche», «L'invitation au voyage», «Le manoir de Rosemonde», «Phidylé», «Lamento», «Sérénade Florentine» (and several other poems by Jean Lahor).
[edit] External links
- Free scores by Henri Duparc in the Werner Icking Music Archive
