Henri Duparc
Life
Born: 21 January 1848
Died: 12 February 1933
Biography Eugène Marie Henri Fouques Duparc was a French composer of the late Romantic period.
Duparc was born in Paris. He studied piano with César Franck at the Jesuit College in the Vaugirard district 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 Moderne.
Duparc is best known for his seventeen songs with texts by poets such as Baudelaire, Gautier, Leconte de Lisle, and Goethe. These pieces are considered by many to be among the greatest compositions by any composer in this form.
A mental illness, called "neurasthenia", caused him to abruptly cease composing at age 37, in 1885. He devoted himself to his family and his other passions, drawing and painting. He destroyed most of his music, leaving fewer than 40 works to posterity.
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List of vocal works
| composed | Title | First line | Poet | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1868, circa | Chanson triste | Dans ton cœur dort un clair de lune | Jean Lahor | Op. 2, no. 4; orchestrated 1912 |
| 1869 | Le galop | Agite, bon cheval, ta crinière | Sully Prudhomme | Op. 2, no. 5 Released in 1948. |
| 1869 | Romance de Mignon | Le connais-tu, ce radieux pays | Victor Wilder, after Goethe's «Kennst du das Land» |
Op. 2, no. 3 |
| 1869 | Sérénade | Si j'étais, ô mon amoureuse | Gabriel Marc | Op. 2, no. 2 |
| 1869 | Soupir | Ne jamais la voir ni l’entendre | Sully Prudhomme | Op. 2, no. 1., revised 1902 |
| 1869-70 | Au pays où se fait la guerre | Original title: Absence, from opera Roussalka |
Théophile Gautier | Definitive version, 1911–13. orchestrated 1876 |
| 1870 | L'Invitation au voyage | Mon enfant, ma soeur | Charles Baudelaire | Released in 1872. Voice & piano (orchestrated 1892–95) |
| 1871 | La fuite | Au firmament sans étoile | Théophile Gautier | duo pour soprano et ténor avec piano, Op. 2, no. 6. |
| 1871 | La vague et la cloche | Une fois, terrassé par un puissant breuvage | François Coppée | Released in 1873. Voice & piano (Orchestrated) |
| 1872-82 | Phidylé | L'herbe set molle au sommeil | Leconte de Lisle | Released in 1889 Voice & piano (orchestrated, 1891–92) |
| 1874 | Elégie | Oh! ne murmure pas son nom | (Duparc's wife Ellen MacSwinny?) after Thomas Moore's "Oh! Breathe not his name" |
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| 1874 | Extase | Sur un lys pâle | Jean Lahor | Released 1882. Revised 1884. |
| 1879 | Le Manoir de Rosemonde | De sa dent soudaine et vorace | Robert de Bonnières | orchestrated 1912) |
| 1880 | Sérénade florentine | Etoile dont la beauté luit | Jean Lahor | Released 1882. |
| 1882 | Benedicat vobis Dominus | Psalm 134/CXXXIII | Motet for three mixed voices and organ (or piano) | |
| 1883 | Lamento | Connaissez-vous la blanche tombe | Théophile Gautier | Voice & piano |
| 1883 | Testament | Pour que la vent te les apporte | Paul-Armand Silvestre | Released in 1898, orchestrated 1900–02 |
| 1884 | La vie antérieure | J'ai longtemps habité | Charles Baudelaire | orchestrated 1911–13) |
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Publications
External links
- Works by Henri Duparc in the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)