Download The French famous composers

The French famous
composers
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Berlioz
Hector Berlioz was born on
December 11th 1803 in Côte-SaintAndré. At the age of 10, he chad flute
and guitar lessons. In 1816 he
composed his first composition for
Flageolet and other popular
compositions.
In 1821, he entered the medicine
school in Paris but he spent most of
his time reading and copying musical
works.
• Works :
He wrote Le Cheval Arabe, Six Romances
and he composes an opera on Estelle et
Némorin and in 1830 the Symphonie
Fantastique (the biggest work of Hector
Berlioz).
Offenbach
Jacques Offenbach was a French cellist
and composer from German Origin, he
was born in Cologne, on 20th June 1819
and he died in Paris on 5th October 1880.
He studied at the conservatoire de Paris ,
but he was dismissed for lack of discipline .
Director of music director at the comédie
Francaise , then, he ran a theatre.He lived
in Paris, Vienna, and Baden-Baden.
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Works:
Orpheus in the Underworl(1858-1874)
La Belle Hélène (1864)
La Vie Parisienne (1866-1873)
The Grande-duchesse of Gerolstein
(1867)
• The Perichole (1868-1874)
• The Drum Major’s Daugter(1879)
• Les Tales d’Hoffmann (1881, op. posth.)
Debussy
He was born on August 22nd in SaintGermain-en-Laye and he died in Paris on
March 25th 1918.He is a great pianist. He
compsed the first melodies in 1879 from
texts by Alfred de Musset. He is a classical
music composer. He won lots of prizes ,he
composed five poems by Baudelaire and
the “Fantasie” a piano and orchestra and
many other works.
• Works :
The third and most famous movement of Suite
bergamasque is "Clair de lune," meaning
"moonlight" in French.Its name comes from Paul
Verlaine's poem of the same name which also
refers to bergamasque in its opening stanza.
Much of the movement is played pianissimo, and
back and five between great emotional intensity
and a long distance make it a masterpiece of the
Impressionist period. It is played in D flat major,
except for its point of greatest
Intensity, in C sharp minor.
Ravel
Ravel was born on March 7th ,1875 in the PaysBasque, France. He began playing the piano at the age
of six and at fourteen, he played his first concert in
public.
He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris. He began
composing around 1893. Ravel was expelled from the
Conservatoire in 1895 but he came back in 1898. He
began his studies with Gabriel Fauré. His first important
work is Habanera and his first published work was
Menuet Antique. Ravel died on December 28th , 1937 at
the age of 62 years old from a brain injury due to a car
accident in 1932.
• Works :
Ravel’s Bolero (1928)
Pictures at an Exhibition (1922)
Daphnis and Chloe (between 1909 1912)
Concerto in G (1929-1930)
Mother Goose (1910)
Saint Saens
Camille Saint-Saens is a famous French
composer of the nineteenth and twentieth
century. He was born on October 9, th 1835 in
Paris. He was compared to Mozart because of
his early musical talents: at two, he was already
good at the piano. He wrote his first symphony at
the age of 18.
He was admired by Franz Liszt who became has
friend. 10 works participate in the success of
Camille Saint-Saens.
Le carnaval des animaux, Samson, Dalila and La
danse macabre.
He died at the age of 86, December 16 th 1921 in
Algiers.
• Works :
Dance of Death
Danse Macabre is a symphonic poem composed in
1874 by Camille Saint-Saens from a poem by Henri
Cazalis.
All instruments come to play a role, they are real actors.
Thus, the xylophone is the skeletons dancing at night.
Indeed, it is the sound of their slamming bones the
composer featured here. The violins beat out the rhythm
on loud coughing and remind the winter wind and the
diminished fifth out the beginning (the-E flat) does
suggest the drought and the bitterness of the season.
The harp sounds the stroke of midnight, and the solo
violin symbolizes death striking on the graves to wake up
the dead.
Played for the first time on January 24, th 1875, under
the direction of Edward Colonne, this work was
denigrated by the public. It is now a famous work.