Clermont Pépin

Jean Joseph Clermont Pépin, OC, OQ ( born May 15, 1926 in Saint-Georges-de-Beauce/Québec, † September 2, 2006 in Montreal) was a Canadian composer, pianist and music teacher.

Biography

Pépin studied from 1939 to 1941 in Montreal at Arthur Letondal and Claude Champagne and thereafter until 1944 at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia with Jeanne Behrend and Rosario Scalero piano and composition. Until 1946, he was then at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec pupil of Jean Dansereau, Louis Bailly, Leon Barzin and again from Claude Champagne.

Several prizes of Composers, Authors and Publishers Association of Canada ( CAPAC ) enabled him to study at the Royal Conservatory of Music with Lubka Kolessa, Arnold Walter and Nicholas Goldschmidt. In 1949 he won the Prix d'Europe as a pianist and lived until 1955 in Paris, where he took piano lessons with Yves Nat and Lazare Lévy and composition lessons with Arthur Honegger and André Jolivet. At the Conservatoire de Paris he attended classes of Olivier Messiaen.

From 1955 to 1973 taught at the Conservatoire de musique Pépin, whose director he was since 1967. Among his pupils were Micheline Coulombe Saint- Marcoux, François Dompierre, André Gagnon, Jacques Hétu and André Prévost. After he had worked until 1977 for the Ministry of Education of Quebec, he taught until 1987, again at the Conservatoire.

1963 was one of the founding members of Pépin Centre d' études prospectives du Québec, to whose publications he worked. From 1966 to 1970 he was Vice President and 1980-1982 President of CAPAC. He was also from 1969 to 1972 president of the Jeunesse Musicales du Canada. In 1980 he founded the publishing house Les Éditions Clermont Pépin to publish his complete works.

In 1938, Wilfrid Pelletier led at the Concerts de Montréal symphoniques a minuet of the twelve-year Pépin on. 1939 presented the Quebec Symphony Orchestra under Robert Talbot a symphony - the processing of a piano composition - of him. 1947 sent the CBC his first symphony, conducted by Jean -Marie Beaudet. In Paris, he turned away from manicured post-Romantic style from far and under the influence of Honegger's serial music. Guernica ( after the painting by Picasso) and the ballet Les Portes de l' enfer, he with his first wife Raymonde Gagnon - his second wife he was married to the violinist Mildred Goodman - 1953 aufführte, are examples of this period.

In his ballets and incidental music from the 1950s, for the first time elements of jazz became noticeable. In 1972 he wrote the Monad III, a bravura piece for violin and orchestra for the Montreal International Music Competition. For the fiftieth anniversary of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra in 1983 his Symphony implosion was performed. In his later years, he composed some church music, including a Te Deum (1991 ) and Messe sur le Monde (1993).

Since 1985, the Concours de Musique Clermont- Pépin was held to encourage young musicians. Pépin received the 1970 Prix de musique Calixa Lavallée -, 1981 Officer of the Order of Canada and 1990 of the Ordre national du Québec.

Works

  • Pièces pour piano faciles, 1938-1953
  • Petite étude no. 1, 2, 3 and 4 for Piano, 1940, 1946, 1947
  • Variations for String Orchestra, 1944
  • Trois Menuets for string quartet, 1944
  • No toccata. 1 for piano, 1946
  • Ave Maria, 1946
  • Concerto No.. 1 for piano and orchestra, 1946
  • Sonate en un mouvement for piano, 1947
  • Variations symphoniques, 1947
  • Thème et variations for piano, 1947
  • Adagio for String Orchestra, 1947-1956
  • String Quartet No.. 1, 1948
  • Symphony No.1 in B Minor, 1948
  • Éluard Cycle for Soprano and Piano, 1949
  • Étude - Atlantique for piano, 1949
  • Concerto No.. 2 for piano and orchestra, 1949
  • Cantique des cantiques, 1950
  • Nocturne for Piano, 1950
  • Suite for Piano, 1951
  • Guernica, symphonic poem, 1952
  • The Nose, Cradle Song, The Gates of Hell for piano, 1953
  • Les Portes de l' enfer, Ballet, 1953
  • Le Rite du soleil noir, symphonic poem, 1955
  • Quatre Monodies, 1955
  • Nocturne for piano and string orchestra, 1955-1959
  • Athalie, incidental music, 1956
  • Le Malade imaginaire, incidental music, 1956
  • L' Oiseau - phénix, Ballet, 1956
  • Ronde de L' Oiseau - villageoise phénix, 1956
  • Trois Pièces pour " La Légende Dorée " for harpsichord or piano, 1956
  • String Quartet No.. 2 ' Variations ', 1956
  • Fantaisie for string orchestra, 1957
  • Symphony No.. 2, 1957
  • Fantaisie by French folk songs, 1957
  • Suite for Violin, Cello and Piano, 1958
  • Pièces pour piano, 1958-1995
  • String Quartet No.. 3, 1959
  • Hymne au vent du nord, cantata for tenor and small orchestra, 1960
  • String Quartet No.. 4 ' Hyberboles ', 1960
  • Toccata No. 3 for Piano, 1961
  • Monologue for orchestra, 1961
  • Ronde de L' Oiseau - villageoise phénix for two pianos, 1961
  • Nombres for Two Pianos and Orchestra, 1962
  • Three Miniatures for Strings, 1963
  • Monad I for string orchestra, 1964
  • Quasars, Symphony no. 3, 1967
  • Pièce de circonstance for children's choir and school instrument ensemble, 1967
  • Monad III for violin and orchestra, 1972
  • Séquences for Flute, Oboe and String Trio, 1972
  • Chroma for orchestra, 1973
  • Prismes et cristaux for string orchestra, 1974
  • Monad IV - Réseaux for Violin and Piano, 1974
  • La Messe sur le Monde, Symphony no. 4 for bass, chorus and orchestra, 1974
  • Monad VI - Réseaux for Violin, 1974-1976
  • String Quartet No.. 5, 1976
  • Interactions for percussion and two pianos, 1977
  • Nuclées for Percussion, 1977
  • Trio No.. 2 for Vilinie, Cello and Piano, 1982
  • Implosion, Symphony no. 5, 1983
  • Monad VII for violin and viola, 1986
  • Paysage for soprano, clarinet, cello and piano, 1987
  • Trois incantations for Voice and Piano, 1987
  • Concerto, 1988
  • Te Deum for chorus and instrumental ensemble, 1991
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