Marcel Dupré

Marcel -Jean- Jules Dupré ( May 3, 1886 in Rouen, † May 30, 1971 in Meudon ) was a French composer, organist, pianist and music teacher.

Life

Macel Dupré was born in Rouen, the son of Albert Dupré and Marie- Alice Chauvière. The father, a pupil of Alexandre Guilmant, taught as a music teacher at the Lycée Corneille and was organist at the church of St -Ouen de Rouen. The mother was a pianist and pupil of Aloys Klein. 1893 Dupré received by his father his first music lessons. Three months later, he played for the first time publicly at a wedding in Elbeuf the organ. In 1894 he was eight years old when an encounter with the organ builder Aristide Cavaillé- Coll, who for a walk along the Seine took with him while the parents were rehearsing for an organ consecration. 1896 witnessed his organ playing Louis Vierne in Saint- Valéry -en- Caux. 1902 - at the age of 16 years - Dupré began his studies at the Paris Conservatory. He studied piano with Louis Diémer (1843-1919) and later organ with Alexandre Guilmant, who had already formed his father Albert Dupré ( 1860-1940 ). Dupré also studied composition with Charles -Marie Widor. In 1934 he was Widor's successor as organist at the great Cavaillé -Coll organ of St- Sulpice de Paris.

He created an extensive body of work for organ, became a teacher of many well known personalities such as organist Olivier Messiaen, Marie- Claire Alain, Pierre Cochereau, Jeanne Demessieux and Jean -Jacques Grunenwald, and coined the organ style and quality of the organists of his time.

Dupré's oeuvre includes around one hundred works for piano, organ, orchestra, chorus and chamber music, with some early works were not yet published. However, his compositional focus was the organ. A brilliant concert organist and improviser Dupré made ​​numerous concert tours worldwide.

Besides his work as a composer, he also emerged as editor of the organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Handel, but also edited works by César Franck, Robert Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn and Franz Liszt.

Compositions

Organ solo

  • Elévation op 2 (1912, first published organ composition )
  • Trois Préludes et Fugues, Op 7 (1912 ) ( Prélude et fugue en Si majeur )
  • Scherzo, Op 16 (1919)
  • 15 Versets pour les Vêpres du commun des Fêtes de la Sainte Vierge, Op 18 (1919)
  • Cortege et Litanie Op 19 No 2 ( editing the piano version, 1921)
  • Variations sur un Noël op 20 (1922 )
  • Suite Bretonne, Op 21 (1923 )
  • Symphonie- Passion, Op 23 (1924 )
  • Lamento op 24 (1926 )
  • Deuxième Symphonie op.26 (1929 )
  • Sept Pièces, Op 27 (1931 )
  • Seventy -Nine Chorales Op 28 (1931 )
  • Le Chemin de la croix, Op 29 (1931 )
  • Trois Elevations, Op 32 (1935 )
  • Angelus, Op 34 No 1 (1936 )
  • Trois Préludes et Fugues, Op 36 (1938 )
  • Évocation op 37 (1941 )
  • Le Tombeau de Titelouze op 38 (1942 )
  • Suite Op 39 (1944 )
  • Offrande à la Vierge, Op 40 (1944 )
  • Trois Esquisses op 41 (1945 )
  • Paraphrase on the Te Deum, Op 43 (1945 )
  • Vision, Op 44 (1947 )
  • Eight Short Preludes Op 45 Gregorian (1948 )
  • Épithalame without op (1948 )
  • Miserere Mei, Op 46 (1948 )
  • Psaume XVIII, Op 47 (1949 )
  • Six Antiennes pour le temps de Noël op 48 (1952 )
  • Vingt- Quatre Inventions, Op 50 (1956 )
  • Triptyque op 51 (1957 )
  • Nympheas, Op 54 (1959 )
  • Annunciation, Op 56 (1961 )
  • Choral et Fugue, Op 57 (1962 )
  • Trois Hymnes op.58 (1963 )
  • Two Chorales Op 59 (1963 )
  • In Memoriam op 61 (1965 )
  • Méditation without op (1966 )
  • Entrée, Canzona et Sortie op 62 (1967 )
  • Quatre Fugues modal op 63 (1968 )
  • Regina Coeli, Op 64 (1969 )
  • Vitrail op.65 (1969 )
  • Variations sur " Adeste fideles " oO (1929; reconstructed improvisation )
  • Offertoire: Variations sur Il est né, le divin enfant

Organ with other instruments

  • Cortege et Litanie op.19 for organ and orchestra ( editing the piano version, 1921)
  • Symphony in G minor, Op 25 for Organ and Orchestra ( 1927)
  • Ballade Op 30 for organ and piano (1932 )
  • Concerto in E minor op.31 for organ and orchestra (1934 )
  • Héroïque Poème, Op 33 for organ, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones and Field Drum ( 1935)
  • Variations on two themes, Op 35 for organ and piano (1937 )
  • Symphony Op 42 for organ and piano (1946 )
  • Quartet Op 52 for Violin, Viola, Cello and Organ ( 1958)
  • Trio Op 55 for Violin, Cello and Organ ( 1960)
  • Sonata in A minor, Op 60 for cello and organ ( 1964)

Choral music

  • Les Normand op 1 for chorus and orchestra (1911 )
  • Psyché op 4 for voices and orchestra (1914 )
  • Quatre Motets, Op 9 for voices and two organs (1916 )
  • De Profundis Op 17 for soloists, chorus, organ and orchestra (1917 )
  • Ave Verum, Op 34 No 2 for voices and strings (1936 )
  • La France au Calvaire op 49 for soloists, chorus, organ and orchestra (1953 )
  • Deux Motets, Op 53 for soprano and choir ( 1958)

Piano solo

  • Six Preludes, Op 12 (1916 )
  • Marche militaire op 14 (1915 )
  • Quatre Pièces, Op 19 ( 1921)
  • Variations in C sharp minor, Op 22 (1924 )

Chamber Music

  • Sonata in G minor, Op 5 for Violin and Piano ( 1909)
  • Quatre mélodies op 6 for voice and piano (1913 )
  • Deux Pièces, Op 10 for Clarinet and Piano ( 1917)
  • À l' amie perdue op.11 for voice and piano (1911 )
  • Deux Pièces, Op 13 for Cello and Piano ( 1916)

Other works

  • Elevation op 2 for Harmonium (1913 )
  • Fantaisie in B minor, Op 8 for piano and orchestra (1912 )
  • Marche militaire op 14 for Orchestra (Arrangement of the piano version, 1915)
  • Orientale, Op 15 for orchestra ( 1916)

Bibliography

  • Robert Delestre. L' oeuvre de Marcel Dupré. Paris: Éditions " Sacred Music ", 1952.
  • Jeanne Demessieux. " L'art de Marcel Dupré. " Études (Paris, April 1950 ).
  • Rolande Falcinelli. Marcel Dupré, 1955: Quelques oeuvres. Paris: Alphonse Leduc, 1955.
  • Bernard Gavoty. Marcel Dupré. Les grands Interprètes. Genève, Suisse: Éditions René Kister, 1955.
  • Michael Murray. French Masters of the Organ. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
  • Michael Murray. Marcel Dupré: The Work of a Master Organist. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1985.
  • Michael Murray. Marcel Dupré: Life and Work of a Master Organist. Translated by Hans Uwe Hielscher. Langen bei Bregenz: Edition Günter charging, 1993 ISBN 3-9500017-3-5. .
  • Graham Steed. The Organ Works of Marcel Dupré. Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 1999.
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