Ludovic Lamothe

Ludovic Lamothe ( born May 12, 1882 in Port-au -Prince, † April 4, 1953 ibid ) was a Haitian pianist and composer.

The father was the pianist Lamothes Tacite Lamothe, and his grandfather, Joseph Lamothe was a pianist. His mother, with whom he had his first piano lessons, was the poet Sampeur Virginie, who was married in first marriage to Oswald Durant. He had piano and clarinet lessons at the St. Louis de Gonzague institution and studied 1910-11 at the Paris Conservatoire with Louis Diémer.

After his return Lamothe lived as a piano teacher and pianist in Port -au -Prince. Part of his repertoire was the work of Frédéric Chopin's what the call a "black Chopin " brought him. As a composer, he came forward with songs, piano pieces, and some orchestral works, in which he combined music in the tradition of European classical music with elements of Haitian music tradition. Few of his works were published during his lifetime. This meant that impoverished the end of his life, and in 1944 lost his apartment, where he had lived for 36 years. Friends of his music then organized a collection that secured him a new home. Only in 1955 was realized by his family an edition of his collected works.

Works

  • Billet for medium voice and piano
  • Danza no 1-3 for orchestra
  • Danza no 4 for Piano, 1953
  • Dangereuse for Piano
  • Fantaises
  • Feuillet d' album for piano
  • Fleures d' Haiti for Piano
  • La dangereuse; Meringue haitienne for Piano
  • Les jasmines
  • NIBO, merengue de carnaval for Piano
  • Papillons noirs for Piano
  • Retraite aux flambeaux for orchestra
  • Scherzo for Piano
  • Sobo for Piano
  • Sous la tonelle for orchestra
  • Tango for Piano
  • Valse de concert
  • 2 Valses de concert
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