Jean Cartan
Jean Cartan (born December 1, 1906 in Nancy , † March 26, 1932 in Briis-sous-Forges , Essonne department ) was a French composer.
Life
Cartan was a son of the mathematician Élie Cartan and Marie-Luise Bianconi and the younger brother of Henri Cartan , who also became a mathematician, and the elder of Louis Cartan (1909-1943), physicist who later became a Resistance fighter from the Germans was killed.
Jean Cartan was initially trained by Marcel Samuel-Rousseau , after which his teachers Noël Gallon , Charles-Marie Widor and Paul Dukas were at the Conservatoire de Paris . Cartan composed chamber music and songs based on texts by Tristan Klingsor , François Villon and Stéphane Mallarmé . He dedicated his first string quartet to Albert Roussel , and his sonatina was performed at the 1931 International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) conference in Oxford . He died of tuberculosis at the age of 25 .
Fonts
- Les idées de Jean Cartan , 1933
Compositions (selection)
- Sonatine pour flûte et clarinette
- Quatuor en ré mineur pour 2 violons, alto and violoncello
- Introduction pour piano, flûte, clarinette, hautbois, cor et basson
- Deuxième quatuor à cordes
- Father: cantate pour soli, choeurs et orchester
- Cinq poèmes de Tristan Klingsor
- Homage to Dante
- Tois chants d'été
- Trois poèmes de François Villon
- Deux sonnets de Mallarmé. : pour chant et piano
- Introduction et Allegro, pour piano et bois
Recordings
- Ensemble Stanislas / Quatuor Stanislas : "On septembre 2011 paraîtra l'intégrale de la musique de chambre de Jean Cartan (1906-1932)." Timpani 1C1187
literature
- Arthur Hoérée : Lemma Jean Cartan in: Stanley Sadie (Ed.): The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians . Macmillan, London 1980. Vol. 3, p. 830
- Albert Roussel: Jean Cartan , in: La Revue musicale . Numéro 126. May 1932, p. 32
Individual evidence
- ^ Date of death also March 16. Place near Grove also Bligny, Côte-d'Or, without further details
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cartan, Jean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 1, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nancy |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 26, 1932 |
| Place of death | Briis-sous-Forges , Essonne department |