Joseph Guy Ropartz

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Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz (born June 15, 1864 in Guingamp ( Côtes-d'Armor , Bretagne ), † November 22, 1955 in Lanloup (Côtes-d'Armor)) was a French composer and conductor .

Joseph Guy Ropartz

Life

Ropartz was the son of a well-known lawyer and received his own license in 1885. In the same year he was admitted to study at the Conservatory of Music in Paris and became a student in the class of Jules Massenet ( composition ) and Théodore Dubois ( harmony ). From 1886 he entered the Conservatory in close artistic exchange with Vincent d'Indy and César Franck . In addition, Ropartz wrote poems that are shaped by his Breton origins. At the age of 30 he was appointed director of the Conservatory of Music and chief conductor in Nancy . Thanks to Ropartz, Nancy gained high artistic recognition in musical culture. From 1919 he became the director of the Strasbourg Conservatory, where he imported French tradition into a school that had previously been under German influence. Charles Münch , who was born in Strasbourg, was one of his students . In 1929 he gave his farewell concert and then retired to Lanloup in his Breton homeland, where he died in 1955.

From 1898 Ropartz became politically active in the bourgeois-conservative Union régionaliste bretonne (URB), which advocated greater economic and cultural independence for Brittany from Paris. In 1949 he was elected to succeed Georges Hüe in the Académie des Beaux-Arts .

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Ropartz wrote, among other things, an opera ( Le Pays ), 5 symphonies , chamber music in various scoring and vocal works, such as a Psalm 136 , some organ works, and a requiem , which is often considered his masterpiece.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Introduction et Allegro Moderato" on CD: " Jane Parker-Smith - Romantic & virtuoso Orgelwerke Vol. 2" on the organ of the Marienbasilika Kevelaer , as well as "Theme and Variations" on CD "Romantic to Modern" with Jack Mitchener
personal data
SURNAME Ropartz, Joseph Guy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ropartz, Joseph Guy Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Guingamp , France
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1955
Place of death Lanloup , Brittany , France