Pascal Dusapin

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Pascal Dusapin (born May 29, 1955 in Nancy ) is a French composer and photographer .

Career

Pascal Dusapin studied art and aesthetics at the Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne , at the same time he was a freelance student with Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatory . From 1974 to 1978 he attended the seminars of Iannis Xenakis , whom he describes as his "musical father", Edgar Varèse he calls his "musical grandfather". Dusapin later attended Franco Donatoni's courses . Dusapin received a scholarship from the Académie de France à Rome from 1981-83 . In 2000 he was “compositeur en résidence” in Strasbourg, 2006/07 professor at the Collège de France . Apart from such temporary positions, however, he is one of the few contemporary composers who owe their material existence without official appointment only to their own productivity.

style

To be a witness of the course of things first of all means to perceive them. (Dusapine)

Pascal Dusapin's work is particularly stimulated by extra-musical inspiration from the fields of literature, theater and the visual arts. His collaboration with Dominique Bagouet , Olivier Cadiot and James Turrell is significant in this context . The strong emphasis on the compositional craft is reflected in the scores in which polyphony is the result of carefully drawn vocal lines and individually ramified counterpoint.

He creates rhythmically highly complex scores that are difficult to learn for the musicians. His music can be assigned to the mathematical-intellectual trend.

Works (selection)

Opera and oratorio

  • Roméo et Juliette (1985-1988). Opera (in 9 numbers). Libretto: Olivier Cadiot . Premiere June 10, 1989 Montpellier
  • Medeamaterial (1990/91). Opera (for soprano, solos, baroque ensemble and tape). Libretto: after Heiner Müller . Premiere March 13, 1992 Brussels
  • La Melancholia (1991). Opératorio
  • To Be Sung (1993). Chamber opera (for 3 sopranos, speaker, ensemble and tape). Libretto: Pascal Dusapin (based on Gertrude Stein ). Premiere 1994 Nanterre
  • Perelà, uomo di fumo (2001). Opera. Libretto: Pascal Dusapin (based on Aldo Palazzeschi ). Premiere February 24, 2003 Montpellier, DEA on January 16, 2015 at the State Theater Mainz
  • Faustus. The Last Night (2006). Opera. Libretto: Pascal Dusapin (based on Christopher Marlowe ). Premiere January 21, 2006 Berlin ( State Opera Unter den Linden )
  • Passion (2008). Opera / ballet. Libretto: Pascal Dusapin and Rita de Letteriis. WP July 2, 2008 Aix-en-Provence (Théâtre du Jeu de Paume)
  • Penthesilea (2015). Premiere March 31, 2015 La Monnaie , Brussels
  • Macbeth Underworld (2019). WP September 20, 2019 La Monnaie, Brussels

Chamber music

  • 5 string quartets
  • 1982 Fist for 8 instruments
  • 1983/84 Hop ' for 4 × 3 instruments
  • 1987 Aks for mezzo-soprano and 7 instruments
  • 1991 Aria for clarinet and 13 instruments (clarinet concerto)
  • 1991 Attacca for 2 trumpets
  • 1992 coda for 13 instruments
  • 1993 comoedia for soprano and 6 instruments

Piano works

  • 1998 Origami Etude pour piano No. 1
  • 1998 Igra Etude pur piano No. 2
  • 1999 Tangram Etude pour piano No. 3
  • 1999 Mikado Etude pour piano No. 4th

Solo instrument and orchestra

  • 2002 A Quia pour piano and orchestra
  • 2008/2009: Uncut for solo and orchestra, German EA: January 21, 2011 in the broadcasting hall of the HR in Frankfurt am Main

Discography

  • Chamber music with the Ensemble Ars nova on the Montaigne label
  • 7 solos for orchestra , Orchester Philharmonique de Liège, conductor: Pascal Rophé on the naive label

Honors

Dusapin won several prizes, including the Prix Hervé Dujardin from SACEM (1979), and a 1981 Villa Medici grant .

In 1993/94 he was composer in residence at the Orchester National de Lyon.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Le Figaro: Pascal Dusapin: "Créer, c'est faire acte de resistance"
  2. ↑ Caroline Lüderssen: "Sembrava una nuvola": Pascal Dusapin reads Palazzeschi. Thoughts on the German premiere of the opera “Perelà. Uomo di fumo ”in Mainz. In: Romance Studies , No. 2 (2015), pp. 329–336 ( online )
  3. ^ Festival d'Aix en Provence: Pascal Dusapin - Passion, 4th July 2008
  4. ^ Penthesilea, la dernière création de Pascal Dusapin à la Monnaie on rtbf.be, accessed on April 24, 2015

literature

  • Pascal Dusapin: A music in the making . Ed .: Thomas Meyer. Schott Music, Mainz 2017, ISBN 978-3-7957-1171-9 .

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Dusapin, Pascal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Nancy