Gabriel Dupont

Gabriel Édouard Xavier Dupont ( born March 1, 1878 in Caen, † August 2, 1914 in Le Vésinet ) was a French composer.

Life and work

Dupont had first lessons from his father, a music professor at the College Malherbe and organist at the church of Saint- Etienne was. He attended the conservatory of his native city before he came to Paris in 1893. There he joined the class of harmony of Antoine Taudou at the Conservatoire de Paris. From 1894 to 1896 he studied composition with Jules Massenet, next he had private organ lessons with Louis Vierne and studied counterpoint with André Gedalge.

1895 Dupont wrote officially the Conservatoire and was organ student of Charles Marie Widor, in which he from 1897 to 1903 also studied composition. In 1901 he won the Second Grand Prix de Rome. The opera La Cabreira he won the Concorso Sonzogno. It was in 1904 at the Teatro Lirico di Milano in 1905 and performed at the Opéra -Comique in Paris.

It was followed by three more operas that had their premiere in Nice, Brussels and Paris. Two of his great symphonic works have been premiered at the Concerts Colonne: 1906, the orchestral version of the Heures dolentes and 1907, the symphonic poem Le Chant de la Destinée.

Two great piano cycles created 1903-1905 and 1908-1909: Heures dolentes (first performed in 1906 by Maurice Dumesnil ) and La Maison dans les dunes (first performed in 1910 by Dumesnil ). His last opera was premiered Antar after his death in 1921 at the Paris Opera until 1946 and played forty times.

Dupont fell ill with tuberculosis in 1905 and succumbed to the disease 36 -year-old in the night on August 2, 1914. His brother Maurice Dupont was Orientalist, Robert Dupont was known as a painter.

The opera Antar was performed on May 2, 2009 at the Kiel Opera House from the Kiel Opera Chorus and the Philharmonic Orchestra Kiel under the direction of Georg Fritzsch in Germany for the first time.

Works

  • Deux Airs de Ballet for Piano, 1895
  • Feuillet d' album for piano, 1897
  • Allegretto for Organ, 1898
  • Élévation en Si bémol majeur for Organ
  • Pièce en forme de canon for Organ, 1898
  • Méditation for Organ, 1899
  • Trois Choeurs, songs from Normandy for female chorus, 1900
  • Journée de Printemps for Violin and Piano, 1901
  • Pour la Toussaint for Organ, 1902
  • La Cabrera, opera ( libretto by Henri Cain ), 1903
  • Les Heures dolentes for Piano, 1903-05
  • Poèmes d' Automne, songs, 1904
  • La Glu, opera ( libretto by Jean Richepin and Henri Cain ), 1905-08
  • Les Heures dolentes for orchestra, 1906
  • Le Chant de la Destinée, symphonic poem for piano and orchestra, 1907
  • La Maison dans les Dunes for Piano, 1908-09
  • La farce du cuvier, Opera, 1909-11
  • Poème for piano and string quartet, 1911
  • Antar, opera ( libretto by Chekri Ganem ), 1912-13
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