Guy Ropartz

Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz (* June 15, 1864 in Guingamp (Côtes -d'Armor, Brittany ), † 22 November 1955 Lanloup (Côtes -d'Armor ) ) was a French composer and conductor.

Life

Ropartz was son of a prominent lawyer and received in 1885 his own admission. In the same year he was accepted to study at the Music Conservatory in Paris and became a student in the class of Jules Massenet (composition) and Théodore Dubois (harmony ). From 1886 he joined close artistic exchange with Vincent d' Indy and César Franck at the Conservatoire. In addition Ropartz wrote poems, which are characterized by its Breton origin. At age 30, he was appointed director of the Conservatory of Music and Principal Conductor in Nancy. By Ropartz Nancy gained a high level of artistic recognition in the music culture. From 1919 he was director of the Strasbourg Conservatory and imported French tradition here in a standing date under German influence school. Among his pupils was also a native of Strasbourg Charles Münch. In 1929, he was on tour and then retired to Lanloup in his Breton home, where he died in 1955.

Politically active Ropartz be entered from 1898 régionaliste in the bourgeois- conservative Union Bretonne ( URB ), the greater of an economic and cultural independence of Brittany in Paris.

Work

Ropartz among other things wrote an opera (Le Pays ), 5 symphonies, chamber music in different instrumentations and vocal works, such as a Psalm 136, and a Requiem, which is widely regarded as his masterpiece.