Jacques Albrespic

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Jacques Albrespic (born May 10, 1922 in Le Havre , † February 24, 1987 in Tours ) was a French composer and organist.

Life

Albrespic had his first piano lessons with a graduate of the Budapest Conservatory and organ lessons with Marcel Lanquetuit in Rouen . In 1939 he was appointed organist at the Saint-Joseph church in Le Havre, and in the following year he succeeded René Alix at the Cavaillé-Coll organ in Saint-Michel .

The war interrupted his musical career. In 1943 he was obliged to do labor in Germany through the Service du travail obligatoire . Due to his extraordinary talent, he was initially employed as a repetitor in Münster (Westphalia) and later in Köthen (Anhalt).

After his return to France, Albrespic worked for some time as an English teacher at the Collège moderne in Le Havre. In 1946 he took part in an organ competition and, as the successor to Constant Pernin, was appointed organist at the Cavaillé-Coll organ at Nancy Cathedral. In 1947 he came to Paris to complete his interrupted musical training at the École normal de musique with Andrée Vaurabourg-Honegger and at the Conservatoire de Paris with Eugène Bigot , Olivier Messiaen , Darius Milhaud and Jean Rivier . He received first prizes in orchestral conducting and musical aesthetics and in 1952 in composition.

In the same year he also won the Prix ​​Halphen , the Prix ​​Lepaulle and the Second Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata La sotie de la dame qui fut muette based on a text by Randal L. Escalada . He briefly taught organ at the Schola Cantorum before taking over the management of the city conservatory in Angers in 1954. Here he performed in 1954 with musicians from the Comédie-Française Bizet's L'Arlésienne and in 1955 with members of the Paris Opera Mozart's Don Giovanni . He directed the musicians of the Bayreuth Festival during rehearsals for the performance of Wagner's operas Siegfried (1956) and Tristan und Isolde (1957) in the city.

In 1957 he became director of the École nationale de musique and organist at the Sainte-Croix church in Le Mans. In 1960 he took over the management of the Music School of Tours, which under his direction achieved the rank of Conservatoire national de région . One of his students was Gérard Derieux , who later made a name for himself as a music teacher. In addition, he performed internationally as an organist and gave a. a. Master classes in Essen. In 1975 he handed over the management of the Tours Conservatory to Alfred Herzog so that he could concentrate fully on his work as a composer and organist.

Albrespic composed three symphonies - the second was premiered in 1954 by the Vienna Philharmonic -, a prelude et double fugue for orchestra, an organ concerto, chamber music, organ and piano pieces as well as film and drama music.

Works

  • Prelude et Double fugue for orchestra
  • Mélodie sur des poèmes chinois
  • Premiere Symphony
  • Deuxième Symphony Premiere 1954
  • Troisième symphony
  • Diptyque for piano
  • Elégie for oboe and piano
  • Lied et Scherzo for trumpet and piano
  • Andante for violoncello and piano
  • Concerto for organ and orchestra, 1959
  • Fugue for Organ

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