Jean Papineau-Couture

Jean Papineau - Couture, CC ( born November 12, 1916 in Montreal, † August 11, 2000 ) was a Canadian composer.

Life and career

The grandson had the musician Guillaume Couture as a child first piano lessons from his mother and from 1926 to 1939 at Françoise D' Amour, who taught him in harmony, music history and score reading. He also studied counterpoint with Gabriel Cusson. 1939 and 1940 he was a piano student of Léo- Pol Morin. In 1940 he studied at the New England Conservatory in Boston composition with Quincy Porter, orchestral conducting with Francis Findlay and piano with Beveridge Webster. From 1941 to 1943, he eventually studied with Nadia Boulanger at the Longy School in Cambridge / Massachusetts.

In 1945 Papineau - Couture back to Montreal. Here he taught from 1946 to 1963 at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec and from 1951 to 1982 at the University of Montreal, where he was from 1968 to 1973 Dean of the Faculty of Music. His most important students were Marcelle Deschênes, Richard Grégoire, Jacques Hétu, François Morel, André Prévost and Gilles Tremblay.

Papineau - Couture was a founder member of the Canadian Music Centre and the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec ( SMCQ ), president of the Jeunesse Musicales du Canada ( JMC ) ( 1956-64 ), the Canadian League of Composers ( 1957-59 and 1963 - 66), the Académie de musique du Québec ( AMQ ) ( 1962-63 ), the Canadian Music Council ( 1967-68 ) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council ( 1977-78 ). In 1962 he received the Prix de musique Calixa Lavallée -, 1973, the Canadian Music Council Medal in 1994 and the Governor General 's Performing Arts Award. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1968.

Papineau - Couture was married to the author Isabelle Papineau - Couture. His son François Papineau - Couture 's instrument maker and flautist.

Works

  • Eglogues (Text by Pierre Baillargeon ) for alto, flute and piano, 1942
  • Concerto Grosso for Chamber Orchestra, 1943
  • Mouvement perpétuel for piano, 1943
  • Suite for Piano, 1943
  • Sonata in G for Violin and Piano, 1944
  • Deux Valses for piano, 1944
  • Pater noster; Ave Maria; Offertoire ' Père, daignez recevoir '; Te mater after tirurgischen texts, 1944-58
  • Étude in B Flat Minor for Piano, 1945
  • Rondo for Piano Four Hands, 1945
  • Suite for Flute and Piano, 1945
  • Complainte populaire for soprano, baritone and piano, 1946
  • Quatrains (Text by Francis Jammes ) for soprano and piano, 1947
  • Aria for Violin, 1946
  • Suite for flute, clarinet, bassoon, horn and piano, 1947
  • Symphony No.. 1, 1948
  • Papotages / Tittle Tattle -, Ballet, 1949
  • Les Voleurs volés, puppetry, 1949
  • Sous la grande tente, puppetry, 1950
  • Poem for Orchestra, 1952
  • Concerto for violin and chamber orchestra, 1952
  • Ostinato for strings, harp and piano, 1952
  • Prelude for Orchestra, 1953
  • Quartet No.. 1, 1953
  • Rondo for four recorders, 1953
  • Psaume CL for soprano, tenor, mixed choir, organ and brass, 1954
  • Suite for Violin, 1956
  • Mort ( text by F. Villon ) for alto and piano, 1956
  • Pièce concertante No.. 1 ' Repliement ' for piano and string orchestra, 1957
  • Pièce concertante No.. 2 ' eventails ' for cello and chamber orchestra, 1959
  • Pièce concertante No.. 3 ' Variations ' for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, harp and string orchestra, 1959
  • Pièce concertante No.. 4 ' addition ' for oboe and string orchestra, 1959
  • Aria for Piano, 1960
  • À Jésus, mon roi, mon grand ami, mon frère for two soloists and children's choir, 1960
  • Trois Pièces, 1961
  • Éclosion, Pantomime for piano, violin and tape, 1961
  • Le Rossignol, puppetry, 1962
  • Trois Caprices for Violin and Piano, 1962
  • Fantaisie for wind quintet, 1963
  • Pièce concertante No.. 5 ' Miroirs ' for orchestra, 1963
  • Canons for wind quintet, 1964
  • Lapitsky Suite for Orchestra, 1965
  • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, 1965
  • Viole d' amour (Text Rina Lasnier ) for mixed choir, 1966
  • Dialogues for Violin and Piano, 1967
  • Quartet No.. 2, 1967
  • Sextuor for Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon and String Trio, 1967
  • Paysage (Text of Hector de Saint- Denys Garneau ) for eight singers, eight speakers and small orchestra, 1968
  • Oscillations for orchestra, 1969
  • Nocturnes for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, harpsichord, guitar and percussion, 1969
  • Complémentarité for piano, 1971
  • Dyarchy for piano, 1971
  • Chanson de Rahit ( text by Han Suyin ), 1972
  • Obsession for chamber orchestra, 1973
  • Contraste, 1970
  • Départ for alto flute, 1974
  • Trio in Four Movements for Clarinet, Viola and Piano, 1974
  • Versegeres for bass flute, 1975
  • J'aime les tierces mineures for Flute, 1976
  • Le Débat du coeur et du corps de Villon (Text by François Villon ) for narrator, cello and percussion, 1977
  • Nuit for piano, 1978
  • Idée for piano, 1982
  • Exploration for Guitar, 1983
  • Prouesse for viola, 1985
  • Arcardie for four flutes, 1986
  • Clair- obscur for contrabassoon, double bass and orchestra, 1986
  • Nuit polaire (Text by Irene Papineau - Couture ) for contralto and chamber orchestra, 1986
  • Vers l' extinction for Organ, 1987
  • Courbes for piano, 1988
  • Quasipassacaille for Organ, 1988
  • Thrène for Violin and Piano, 1988
  • Les Arabesques d' Isabelle for flute, English horn, clarinet, bassoon and piano, 1989
  • Automne for chamber orchestra, 1992
  • Vents capricieux for chamber orchestra, 1993
  • Chocs for sonorous percussion, 1994
  • Quatuor no 3, 1996
  • Appel for oboe, bassoon, cornet, trumpet and piano, 1997
  • Septet for chamber ensemble, 1997
  • Discussion animée for Violin and Piano, 1997
  • Méandres for piano, 1998
  • Trio for violin, cello and piano, 2000

Weblink

  • Jean Papineau - Couture in the Canadian Encyclopedia: English, French
  • Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
  • Canadian Composer
  • Companion of the Order of Canada
  • Grand Officer of the Ordre national du Québec
  • Born 1916
  • Died in 2000
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