Justin Elie

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Justin Elie (born September 1, 1883 in Cap Haïtien , † December 2, 1931 in New York City ) was a Haitian composer and pianist .

Life

Justin Elie

Justin Elie had piano lessons with Ermine Faubert from 1889 to 1894 and briefly attended the Saint Louis de Gonzague Institute in Port-au-Prince. In 1895 he came to Paris and attended the Cours Masset , a preparatory school for the Conservatoire de Paris . There he studied from 1901 to 1905 with Antoine François Marmontel and Charles Wilfred Bériot piano, with Émile Pessard harmony and with Paul Vidal composition.

After his return to Haiti he performed as a concert pianist and worked a. a. together with Ludovic Lamothe . On a concert tour in 1909 and 1910 he visited JamaiKa, Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, Curaçao, Venezuela and Cuba. In 1921 Elie emigrated to the USA. Here many of his works appeared at the publishing house Carl Fischer Music, Inc. From 1931 he directed the weekly radio program The Lure of the Tropics at the National Broadcasting Company .

Between 1910 and 1922 Elie composed the Chant du Barde India based on texts by the Honduran poet Joaquin Bonilla . La Mort de l'Indien was created in 1916 after Jean-Joseph Vilaire . Elie referred to African and Haitian voodoo traditions in the clay poem Cléopâtre (1917). In the orchestral suite Kiskaya , composed in the USA in 1928, he conjured up the music of the Native Americans of Central and South America. In 1930 the Bolivian pianist Lolita Cabrera premiered his Fantasie Tropicale .

Works

  • 2 Poèmes vaudouesques for high voice and piano
  • 6 Haitian meringues
  • Aboriginal suite for orchestra
  • Anthnea for orchestra (unfinished)
  • Stream channels
  • Ballet vaudouesque for orchestra, 1921
  • Chants de la montagne for orchestra
  • Cléopatre for orchestra
  • Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 1
  • Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 2
  • Doll's parade
  • Fantasy tropicale for orchestra
  • Grande valse de concert for orchestra
  • Haitian legend for violin and piano
  • Hymn à Legba
  • Indian dance and ritual for piano
  • La kiskaya; suite aboriginals for orchestra
  • La mort de l'india for medium voice and piano
  • La nuit dans les Andes for orchestra
  • Lamentations for medium voice and piano, (Text: Henri Durand )
  • Le chant du bard indien for medium voice and piano
  • Légende créole for violin and piano
  • Lorsque je serais vieux et que tu serais vielle for medium voice and piano, (text: Georges Sylvain )
  • Linda
  • Night of Babylon suite
  • Night in the Andes
  • Procession of the shadow
  • Quiétude for medium voice and piano, (Text: Henri Durand)
  • rumba
  • Rustic scherzo for piano or organ
  • Aborigène Suite for Orchestra
  • Suite Babylone for orchestra
  • Suite orientale; La rein des nuits for piano
  • Tropical dance, no. 1 and 2 for piano
  • Voudoe , ballet

literature

  • Art. Elie, Justin . In: Samuel A. Floyd (ed.): International Dictionary of Black Composers , Vol. 1: Abrams – Jenkins . Fitzroy Dearborn, Chicago and London 1999.
  • Art. Elie, Justin . In: Aaron Horne: Brass music of black composers. A bibliography . Greenwood Press, Westport 1996, ISBN 0-313-29826-2 , pp. 89-90.

source

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Art. Elie, Justin . In: Aaron Horne: Brass music of black composers. A bibliography . Greenwood Press, Westport 1996, pp. 89-90, here p. 89.


personal data
SURNAME Elie, Justin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Haitian composer and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Cap Haïtien
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 1931
Place of death New York City