Pascal Dusapin

Pascal Dusapin (* May 29, 1955 in Nancy) is a French composer.

He studied art and aesthetics at the Université de Paris IV -Sorbonne and attended from 1974 to 1978, the seminars of Iannis Xenakis, whom he describes as his " musical father," Edgar Varèse he calls his " musical grandfather ". Later he attended the courses of Franco Donatoni. Such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, he is one of the few that owe their material existence without official Bestallung only its own productivity.

Dusapin won several awards, including the Prix Hervé Dujardin by SACEM (1979 ), and in 1981 a scholarship from the Villa Medici.

1993/94 he was composer in residence with the Orchestre National de Lyon.

Style

Witness to be of the order of things is, first, to perceive them. ( Dusapin )

Pascal Dusapin work is particularly inspired by extra-musical inspirations from the fields of literature, theater and the visual arts. It is significant in this context its collaboration with Dominique Bagouet, Olivier Cadiot and James Turrell. The strong emphasis on the compositional craft is reflected in scores in which polyphony arises as a result of carefully drawn vocal patterns and detailed ramified counterpoint. He creates rhythmically highly complex, costly for the musicians to learn scores. His music can be assigned to the mathematical and intellectual current.

Works (selection)

Opera and Oratorio

  • Roméo et Juliette ( 1985-88 ). Opera ( 9 numbers). Libretto: Olivier Cadiot. UA June 10, 1989 Montpellier
  • Medea Material (1990 /91). Opera ( for soprano, solo, Baroque ensemble and tape ). Libretto: by Heiner Müller. UA March 13, 1992 Brussels
  • La Melancholia (1991). Opératorio
  • Sung to Be (1993). Chamber Opera ( for 3 sopranos, speaker, ensemble and tape ). Libretto: Pascal Dusapin ( Gertrude Stein). UA 1994 Nanterre
  • Perela, Uomo di fumo ( 2001). Opera. Libretto: Pascal Dusapin (after Aldo Palazzeschi ). UA February 24, 2003 Montpellier
  • Faustus. The Last Night (2006). Opera. Libretto: Pascal Dusapin (after Christopher Marlowe ). UA January 21, 2006 Berlin ( Staatsoper Unter der Linden )
  • Passion ( 2008). Opera / Ballet. Libretto: Pascal Dusapin and Rita de Lette Riis. UA July 2, 2008 Aix -en- Provence ( Théâtre du Jeu de Paume )

Chamber Music

  • 5 string Quartets
  • 1982 Fist for 8 instruments
  • 1983/84 Hop ' for 4 x 3 instruments
  • 1987 Aks for mezzo-soprano and seven instruments
  • 1991 Aria for Clarinet and 13 instruments ( Clarinet Concerto )
  • 1991 Attaca for 2 trumpets
  • 1992 Coda for 13 instruments
  • 1993 comoedia for soprano and 6 instruments

Piano Works

Solo Instrument and Orchestra

  • 2002 A Quia pour piano et orchester
  • 2008/2009: Uncut for soloist and orchestra, German EA: January 21, 2011 at the studio of the HR in Frankfurt am Main

Discography

  • Chamber music with the Ensemble Ars Nova at the label Montaigne
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