Pierre Mercure

Pierre Mercure ( born February 21, 1927 in Montreal, † January 22, 1966 in Avallon, France) was a Canadian composer, television producer and trombonist.

Mercure studied from 1944 to 1949 at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec harmony and counterpoint with Marvin Duchow and Claude Champagne, conducting with Leon Barzin and trombone at Roland Gagnier and Louis Letellier. He appeared in 1949 at the Théâtre des Companions to three plants with in which dance, poetry, music and painting combined. With the choreographer Françoise Sullivan, the poet Claude Gauvreau and the painter Jean -Paul Mousseau, he led Dualité, Femme archaïque and Lucrèce Borgia on.

1949 Mercure went to Paris, where he studied with Nadia Boulanger and later at Arthur ÈhearÉ, Darius Milhaud and Jean Fournet. He also worked in community compositions with his friends Gabriel Charpentier, Jocelyne Binet and Clermont Pépin.

The summer of 1951 he spent a scholarship from the Government of Québec at Tanglewood, where Luigi Dallapiccola his teacher and friend was. Beginning of 1952 he went to the CBC, where he brought out as a producer of TV music program until 1959 Series such as L' Heure du concert, Concerts pour la jeunesse, Jazz Workshop, Music Hall, Pays et merveilles.

During his second stay in Europe in the years 1957 and 1958 Mercure studied with Pierre Schaeffer, under whose influence he turned to in the subsequent years of electroacoustic music. In August 1961, he organized the International Week of Today 's Music, to which he had invited, among others, John Cage, Serge Garant, Mauricio Kagel, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Christian Wolff, and Iannis Xenakis.

On his third trip to Europe in 1962, which also took him to Paris and Darmstadt, his composition was listed in the Fluxus International Festival of Very New Music in Wiesbaden.

From 1949 to 1958 he was married to actress Monique Mercure. From the union a daughter and twin sons were born.

On January 22, 1966 Mercure died in a traffic accident near Avallon in France died. In the same year, Festival du disque were the pianists Victor Bouchard and Renée Morisset for their performance of the Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra by Roger Matton the Prix Pierre Mercure award at Montreal.

Works

• Dualité, Ballet, 1948
• Kaléidoscope for orchestra, 1948
• Pantomime for strings and percussion, 1948
• Colloque (after Paul Valéry ) for medium voice and piano, 1948
• La Femme archaïque, Ballet, 1949
• Lucrèce Borgia, Ballet, 1949
• Emprise, Ballet, 1950
• Ils ont la ville détruit, 1950
• Cantate pour une joie, 1955
• Dissidence for soprano or tenor and piano, 1955
• Divertissement for string quartet / string orchestra, 1957
• Triptyque for orchestra, 1959
• Improvisation, Ballet, 1961
• Incandescence, Ballet, 1961
• Talliques Structures I and II, Ballet, 1961
• Jeu de hockey for tape, 1961
• Repercussions for tape, 1961
• Structures talliques III. for tape, 1962
• Manipulation, Ballet, 1963
• Tétrachromie, Ballet, 1963
• Psaume pour abri for wind quintet, string quartet, harpsichord, piano, harp, percussion and tape, 1963
• Surimpressions, Ballet, 1964
• Lignes et points for Orchestra, 1964
• La Forme des choses, Film Music, 1965
• Élément 3, Film Music, 1965
• H2O by Severino for 4-10 Instruments, 1965

Swell

• Mercure, Pierre, entry in the Encyclopédie de la musique au Canada (French)
• Pierre Mercure, entry in brahms.ircam.fr (French)
• Pierre Mercure, entry at the Canadian Music Centre (English)

• Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
• Canadian Composer
• Born 1927
• Died in 1966
• Man