Jump to content
 







Main menu
   


Navigation  



Main page
Contents
Current events
Random article
About Wikipedia
Contact us
Donate
 




Contribute  



Help
Learn to edit
Community portal
Recent changes
Upload file
 








Search  



























Create account

Log in
 









Create account
 Log in
 




Pages for logged out editors learn more  



Contributions
Talk
 



















Contents

   



(Top)
 


1Biography
 




2Works
 




3Bibliography
 


3.1Writings by Henri Duparc (in French)
 




3.2Letters (in French)
 




3.3Monographs on Duparc (in French)
 




3.4Other articles and writings about Duparc (in French)
 






4External links
 













Henri Duparc (composer)






Català
Čeština
Deutsch
Español
Euskara
فارسی
Français

Bahasa Indonesia
Italiano
עברית
Magyar
مصرى
Nederlands

Norsk bokmål
Polski
Português
Suomi
Svenska
Türkçe

 

Edit links
 









Article
Talk
 

















Read
Edit
View history
 








Tools
   


Actions  



Read
Edit
View history
 




General  



What links here
Related changes
Upload file
Special pages
Permanent link
Page information
Cite this page
Get shortened URL
Download QR code
Wikidata item
 




Print/export  



Download as PDF
Printable version
 




In other projects  



Wikimedia Commons
 


















From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 


Henri Duparc in 1880

Eugène Marie Henri Fouques Duparc (21 January 1848 – 12 February 1933) was a French composer of the late Romantic period.

Biography[edit]

Son of Charles Fouques-Duparc and Amélie de Guaita. Henri Fouques-Duparc was born in Paris. He studied piano with César Franck at the Jesuit College in the Vaugirard district and became one of his first composition pupils. Following military service in the Franco-Prussian War, he married Ellen MacSwiney, from Scotland, on 9 November 1871. In the same year, he joined Saint-Saëns and Romain Bussine to found the Société Nationale de Musique.

Duparc is best known for his 17 mélodies ("art songs"), with texts by poets such as Baudelaire, Gautier, Leconte de Lisle and Goethe.

A mental illness, diagnosed at the time as "neurasthenia", caused him abruptly to cease composing at age 37, in 1885. He devoted himself to his family and his other passions, drawing and painting. But increasing vision loss after the turn of the century eventually led to total blindness. He destroyed most of his music, leaving fewer than 40 works to posterity. In a poignant letter about the destruction of his incomplete opera, dated 19 January 1922, to the composer Jean Cras, his close friend, Duparc wrote:

Après avoir vécu 25 ans dans un splendide rêve, toute idée de représentation m'était – je vous le répète – devenue odieuse. L'autre motif de cette destruction, que je ne regrette pas, c'est la complète transformation morale que Dieu a opéré en moi il y a 20 ans et qui en une seule minute a abolie toute ma vie passée. Dès lors, la Roussalka n'ayant aucun rapport avec ma vie nouvelle ne devait plus exister.
(Having lived for 25 years in a splendid dream, the whole idea of [musical] representation has become – I repeat to you – repugnant. The other reason for this destruction, which I do not regret, was the complete moral transformation that God imposed on me 20 years ago and which, in a single minute, obliterated all of my past life. Since then, [my opera] Roussalka, not having any connection with my new life, should no longer exist.)

He spent most of the rest of his life in La Tour-de-Peilz, near Vevey, Switzerland, and died in Mont-de-Marsan, in southwestern France, at age 85.

Duparc is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. A square in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, near the rue de Levis, is named in his honor.

Works[edit]

Catalogue of works by Henri Duparc
Year Composition Notes Type of Work
1863-65 Six rêveries, pour piano Printed, but unpublished. Private collection of Mme. d'Armagnac, granddaughter of Duparc. Piano solo
1867 Sonate pour violoncelle et piano Premiered in 1948. Private collection of Mme. d'Armagnac, granddaughter of Duparc. Cello & piano
1867-69 Feuilles volantes, pour piano Piano solo
1868 Chanson triste Published as: Op. 2, no. 4. Text by Jean Lahor. Voice & piano (orchestrated 1912)
1869 Le galop Published as: Op. 2, no. 5. Text by Sully Prudhomme. Released in 1948. Voice & piano
1869 Romance de Mignon Published as: Op. 2, no. 3. Text by Victor Wilder, based on « Kennst du das Land » by Goethe). Voice & piano
1869 Sérénade Published as: Op. 2, no. 2. Text by Gabriel Marc. Voice & piano
1869 Soupir Published as: Op. 2, no. 1. Text by Sully Prudhomme. Revised 1902. Voice & piano
1869 Cinq mélodies, op. 2 Voice & piano
1869 Beaulieu, pour piano Private collection of Mme. d'Armagnac, granddaughter of Duparc. Piano solo
1869-70 Au pays où se fait la guerre Text by Théophile Gautier. Original title: Absence. Definitive version, 1911–13. Voice & piano (orchestrated 1876)
1870 L'invitation au voyage Text by Charles Baudelaire. Released in 1872. Voice & piano (orchestrated 1892–95)
1871 La fuite, duo pour soprano et ténor avec piano Published as: Op. 2, no. 6. Duet for voice & piano
1871 La vague et la cloche Text by François Coppée. Released in 1873. Voice & piano (Orchestrated)
1872 Suite d'orchestre (Lost). Orchestral suite
1872-82 Phidylé Text by Leconte de Lisle. Released in 1889 Voice & piano (orchestrated, 1891–92)
1873 Laendler, suite de valses pour orchestre (Destroyed). Orchestral suite
1873 Laendler (version for two pianos) Two pianos
1874 Poème nocturne :
I. Aux étoiles - II. Lutins et follets - III. Duo: L’aurore
Part lost, only: I. Aux étoiles is extant.
Premiered in Paris on 11 April 1874 at the Société Nationale de Musique Moderne.
Orchestral work
1874 Elégie Text by Ellen MacSwinny(?) (wife of Duparc) after Thomas Moore. Voice & piano
1874 Extase Text by Jean Lahor. Released 1882. Revised 1884. Voice & piano
1875 Lénore Based on the ballad of the same namebyGottfried August Bürger. Symphonic poem
1875 Lénore (version for two pianos) transcription for 2 pianos (1884) by Camille Saint-Saëns Two pianos
1877 Suite pour le piano (Lost). Piano solo
1879 Le manoir de Rosemonde Text by Robert de Bonnières Voice & piano (orchestrated 1912)
1879-95 Roussalka, opéra en trois actes Unfinished. Based on Русалки (Rusalka), a dramatic poem by Alexander Pushkin. Destroyed except for "Absence," republished as "Au pays où se fait la guerre". Opera in 3 acts
1880 Sérénade florentine Text by Jean Lahor. Released 1882. Voice & piano
1882 Benedicat vobis Dominus Motet for three mixed voices and organ (or piano). Choral music
1883 Lamento Text by Théophile Gautier. Voice & piano
1883 Testament Text by Paul Armand Silvestre. Released in 1898. Voice & piano (orchestrated 1900–02)
1884 La vie antérieure Text by Charles Baudelaire. Voice & piano (orchestrated 1911–13)
1886 Recueillement Unfinished. (Destroyed). Voice & piano?
1892 Danse lente Extract from Roussalka. Copied by Ernest Ansermet. Preserved by Éditions Salabert. Orchestral work
1903 Transcription of two works for organ by J.S. Bach:
Prélude and fugue in E minor ("Cathedral"), BWV 513
Prélude and fugue in A minor ("The Great"), BWV 543
Two pianos
1908 Transcription of six organ works by César Franck Two pianos
1910 Aux étoiles, pour piano Also: version for piano four hands, & version for organ. Revised 1911. Piano solo
1911 Aux étoiles Entr'acte for an unpublished drama. Orchestral work
(n.d.) Transcription of a work for organ by J.S. Bach:
Chorale Prélude and Fugue: In dir ist Freude, BWV 615
Private collection of Ernest Ansermet Two pianos

Bibliography[edit]

Writings by Henri Duparc (in French)[edit]

Letters (in French)[edit]

Monographs on Duparc (in French)[edit]

Other articles and writings about Duparc (in French)[edit]

External links[edit]


Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henri_Duparc_(composer)&oldid=1084143330"

Categories: 
1848 births
1933 deaths
19th-century classical composers
19th-century French composers
19th-century French male musicians
20th-century classical composers
20th-century French composers
20th-century French male musicians
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
French male classical composers
French Romantic composers
Pupils of César Franck
Hidden categories: 
Articles with short description
Short description matches Wikidata
Commons category link is on Wikidata
Composers with IMSLP links
Articles with International Music Score Library Project links
Articles with FAST identifiers
Articles with ISNI identifiers
Articles with VIAF identifiers
Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
Articles with BNE identifiers
Articles with BNF identifiers
Articles with BNFdata identifiers
Articles with GND identifiers
Articles with J9U identifiers
Articles with KANTO identifiers
Articles with KBR identifiers
Articles with LCCN identifiers
Articles with NDL identifiers
Articles with NKC identifiers
Articles with NLK identifiers
Articles with NTA identifiers
Articles with PLWABN identifiers
Articles with PortugalA identifiers
Articles with CINII identifiers
Articles with MusicBrainz identifiers
Articles with BMLO identifiers
Articles with DTBIO identifiers
Articles with Trove identifiers
Articles with RISM identifiers
Articles with SNAC-ID identifiers
Articles with SUDOC identifiers
 



This page was last edited on 22 April 2022, at 19:44 (UTC).

Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.



Privacy policy

About Wikipedia

Disclaimers

Contact Wikipedia

Code of Conduct

Developers

Statistics

Cookie statement

Mobile view



Wikimedia Foundation
Powered by MediaWiki