Ludovic Lamothe

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Ludovic Lamothe (born May 12, 1882 in Port-au-Prince ; † April 4, 1953 ) was a Haitian pianist and composer.

Lamothes' father was the pianist Tacite Lamothe , and his grandfather Joseph Lamothe was also a pianist. His mother, with whom he had his first piano lessons, was the poet Virginie Sampeur , whose first marriage was to Oswald Durant . He had piano and clarinet lessons at the institution of St. Louis de Gonzague and studied from 1910–11 at the Conservatoire de Paris with Louis Diémer .

After his return, Lamothe lived as a piano teacher and pianist in Port-au-Prince. The focus of his repertoire was the work of Frédéric Chopin , which earned him the reputation of a "black Chopin". As a composer he emerged with songs, piano pieces and some orchestral works in which he combined music in the tradition of European classical music with elements of the Haitian musical tradition. Few of his works were published in print during his lifetime. This led to the fact that at the end of his life he became poor and in 1944 he lost his apartment, in which he had lived for 36 years. Friends of his music then organized a collection that secured him a new home. It was not until 1955 that his family produced an edition of his collected works.

Works

  • Billet for medium voice and piano
  • Danza no. 1-3 for orchestra
  • Danza no.4 for piano, 1953
  • Dangereuse for piano
  • Fantaises
  • Feuillet d'album for piano
  • Fleures d'Haiti for piano
  • La dangereuse; Meringue haitienne for piano
  • Les jasmines
  • Nibo, Merengue de carnaval for piano
  • Papillons noirs for piano
  • Retraite aux flambeaux for orchestra
  • Scherzo for piano
  • Sobo for piano
  • Sous la tonelle for orchestra
  • Tango for piano
  • Valse de concert
  • 2 Valses de concert

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