Désiré Beaulieu

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Désiré Beaulieu

Marie-Désiré Martin-Beaulieu (also: Marie-Désiré Martin) , born April 11, 1791 in Paris ; † December 21, 1863 in Niort , was a French composer and concert organizer.

Life

Marie-Désiré Martin was the son of an artillery officer and descendant of a wealthy cloth merchant family that was based in Niort. Marie-Désiré Martin took on the addition of Beaulieu after the estate Beaulieu bought from her grandfather in 1761.

Martin-Beaulieu had violin lessons with a musician named Alliaume, a student of Isidore Bertheaume (around 1751-1802) and from 1803 with Rodolphe Kreutzer . From 1805 he had composition lessons with Angelo Maria Benincori (1779–1821), later with Abbé Nicolas Roze . From 1809 he attended the class of Étienne-Nicolas Méhul at the Conservatory . In 1811 he won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata Héro et Léandre based on a libretto by Jacques Bins de Saint-Victor .

However, he renounced the stay in Rome and settled with his wife Francoise Caroline Rouget de Gourcez in Niort , where their father had been mayor until the revolution. Nevertheless, he fulfilled his obligations as a Rome Prize winner and sent several church music works to the Académie des Beaux-Arts . After the death of his teacher Méhul, he composed a requiem in 1819 , which was also performed in 1851 in memory of Kreutzer and in 1863 for his own funeral.

In 1827 he founded a Société Philharmonique in Niort , from which the Association musicale de l'Ouest emerged in collaboration with the violinist and conductor Jules Norès . This was the first symphonic association in the region to organize concerts in Niort, La Rochelle, Angouleme, Rochefort, Poitiers and Limoges and to hold a musical congress every year. The company was active until 1879 and led u. a. Mendelssohn's oratorios Paulus and Elias , Handel's Alexander Festival , Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer's Symphonie concertante and Antonín Reicha's wind quintets.

In 1863 Beaulieu founded the Fondation Beaulieu in Paris , which he endowed with a capital of 100,000 francs in his will. The foundation had a great influence on the musical life in Paris until the First World War. Its chairmen were Ambroise Thomas (until 1895), Henri Colmet-Daage (1896), Théodore Dubois (1897–1910) and Camille Saint-Saëns , the musical directors were Adolphe Deloffre (1864–73), Antonin Guillot de Sainbris (1874– 87), Jules Danbé (1888–1905), Georges Marty (1905–08) and Gabriel Pierné .

Vocal music was at the center of Beaulieu's compositional work. In addition to operas, cantatas and lyrical scenes, he composed secular and ecclesiastical choral works as well as songs and romances with various accompaniments, as well as two string quartets.

Interested in public life in his city, Beaulieu was a member of the Niort City Council from 1840 to 1863.

Works

  • Alcyone , Scène dramatique (text by Antoine-Vincent Arnault ), 1808
  • Céphale , cantata (text by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau ), 1808
  • Circé , cantata, (text by JB Rousseau), 1809
  • Cupidon pleurant Psyché , Scène dramatique (text by Arnault) (1809)
  • Marie-Stuart , Monologue lyrique for voice and orchestra (text by Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy ), 1810
  • Héro et Léandre , cantata (text by Jacques Bins de Saint-Victor), 1810
  • Que le Seigneur est bon for girls' choir and orchestra, 1810
  • Présent de Dieux , 1810
  • Miserere , 1812
  • Sapho à Leucade , Scène lyrique (text by JA Vinaty ), 1813
  • Laudate Dominum in sanctis ejus for two choirs and two orchestras, 1813
  • Domine salvum fac regem , 1814
  • Joan of Arc , cantata, (text by JA Vinaty), 1817
  • Messe de Requiem , 1819
  • Anacréon , opera, (text by Gentil Bernard ), 1828
  • Sixième ode sacrée (text by JB Rousseau), 1828
  • Anacréon , opera (text by Gentil Bernard), 1828
  • Scène lyrique adressée à Mme la duchesse d'Angoulême à son passage à Niort , 1831
  • La Prière des matelots, hymn à la Vierge , 1831
  • Encore un hymne for five-part choir, 1833
  • Fête bacchique , scene extraite from a cantata by JB Rousseau, 1835
  • Solo de cor avec accompagnement de piano , 1837
  • Hymn pour la première communion for ensemble, soloists and girls' choir (text by Émile Deschamps ), 1840
  • Sombre Océan , for ensemble, choir and soloists, 1841
  • Hymne du matin , oratorio for soloists, choir and large orchestra (text by Alphonse de Lamartine ), 1843
  • Cantique pour la fete de Sainte Anne , 1845
  • Mass solennelle for solos, choir and orchestra, 1845
  • Mass à trois voix for three sopranos and organ, 1845
  • Ode à la charité , Mélodie religieuse for voice and piano, 1845
  • Dithyrambe sur l'Immortalité de l'âme par Delille , Oratorio, 1850
  • L' hymne à la nuit , oratorio (text by Lamertine), 1851
  • L'Immortalité de l'Ame , Oratorio, 1851
  • La Charité , hymn for a cappella choir (text by JA Vinaty), 1852
  • Jeanne d'Arc , Grande scène lyrique, 1853
  • Philadelphie , Opera, 1855
  • Marche pour l'Association normande composée à la demande de M. de Caumont , 1855
  • Salve Regina for solo voice and organ, 1859
  • O rives du Jourdain for four-part choir and orchestra (text by Jean Racine ), 1860
  • Mass à quatre voix et orchester , 1862

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Extensive curriculum vitae and catalog of works on the Musica et Memoria website
personal data
SURNAME Beaulieu, Désiré
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martin-Beaulieu, Désiré; Martin, Marie-Désiré
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French composer and concert organizer
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1863
Place of death Niort