Composers

Guy Ropartz

Piano
Orchestra
Voice
Organ
Violin
Cello
Viola
Mixed chorus
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by popularity

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2 chœurs à trois voix égales2 Poèmes3 Méditations3 prières4 Mélodies4 Odelettes4 Poèmes de l'intermezzo5 Pièces Brèves6 Chansons populaires du Bourbonnais

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AdagioAndante and AllegroAu boisAu pied de l’AutelAve verum

B

BerceuseBourrées bourbonnaises

C

CarnavalCello Sonata No.1Cello Sonata No.2Chansons de France pour les enfantsChant d'automneChoral variéCroquis d'automneCroquis d'été

D

Dans l'Ombre de la MontagneDivertissement

E

Entrata e Scherzetto

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Fantaisie in D majorFugue in E minor

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Il pleutImpromptuIntermèdeIntroduction et Allegro Moderato

J

Jeunes filles

K

Kanovenno Santel

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La Chasse du Prince ArthurLa cloche des mortsLa merLa routeLamentoLe douloureux mensongeLe paysLe rêve sur le sableLes fourriers d’esté sont venuzLes heures propicesLes landesLes vêpres du commun des SaintsL'Indiscret

M

Musiques au jardin

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Nocturne No.1Nocturne No.2Nocturne No.3

O

Ouverture, variations et final

P

Pastorale et dansesPastoralesPêcheur d'IslandePetite symphoniePetites pièces pour piano à 4 mainsPetits exercices d'harmoniePiano TrioPièce for Trombone and PianoPièce in B minorPoème d'adieuPrélude funèbrePrélude, Marine et ChansonsPrès d'un ruisseauPrièrePsalm 136

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Rhapsodie for Cello and OrchestraRhapsodie sur 2 Noëls populairesRomanza et Scherzino

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Scènes bretonnes, Op.24ScherzoSérénade ChampêtreSérénade pour instruments à archetsSoir sur les chaumesSonatine for Flute and PianoSons de ClochesSortie in B-flat majorString Quartet No.1String Quartet No.2 in D minorString Quartet No.3String Quartet No.4String Quartet No.5String TrioSur un thème BretonSymphony No.2Symphony No.3Symphony No.4Symphony No.5

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Te Deum Laudamus MassTout vient à poinct qui peult attendreTwo Pieces for Wind Quintet

U

Un prélude dominical

V

Veilles de départVierge sainteViolin Sonata No.1Violin Sonata No.2Violin Sonata No.3Vœu

À

À la mémoire de Paul DukasÀ Marie endormie

Œ

Œdipe à Colone
Wikipedia
Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz (French: [ʁɔpaʁts]; 15 June 1864 – 22 November 1955) was a French composer and conductor. His compositions included five symphonies, three violin sonatas, cello sonatas, six string quartets, a piano trio and string trio (both in A minor), stage works, a number of choral works and other music, often alluding to his Breton heritage. Ropartz also published poetry.
Ropartz was born in Guingamp, Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany. He studied initially at Rennes. In 1885 he entered the Conservatoire de Paris, studying under Théodore Dubois, then Jules Massenet, where he became a close friend of the young Georges Enesco. He later studied the organ under César Franck.
He was appointed director of the Nancy Conservatory (at the time a branch of the Paris Conservatory) from 1894 to 1919, where he established classes in viola in 1894, trumpet in 1895, harp and organ in 1897, then trombone in 1900. He also founded the season of symphonic concerts with the newly created orchestra of the Conservatory, ancestor of the Orchestre symphonique et lyrique de Nancy.
Ropartz was associated with the Breton cultural renaissance of the era, setting to music the words of Breton writers such as Anatole Le Braz and Charles Le Goffic. He also supported Breton regional autonomy, joining the Breton Regionalist Union in 1898. He also was the Honorary President of the Association des Compositeurs Bretons that was founded in 1912.
In the early stages of World War I his friend and fellow composer Albéric Magnard was killed defending his house from German invaders. His house was destroyed, along with several musical manuscripts. Ropartz reconstituted from memory the orchestration of Magnard's opera Guercoeur, which had been lost in the fire.
From 1919 to 1929 Ropartz was director of the Strasbourg Conservatory, which he moved into the building of the former parliament of Alsace-Lorraine. At the same time he undertook the direction of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Strasbourg, influencing young students like Charles Munch. Elected in 1949 as a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts (5th section, musical composition), he succeeded Georges Hüe.
Ropartz also served as a juror with Florence Meyer Blumenthal in awarding the Prix Blumenthal, a grant given between 1919 and 1954 to young French painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers, and musicians.
He retired in 1929 and withdrew to his manor in Lanloup, Brittany. He continued to compose until 1953, however, when he became blind. He died in Lanloup in 1955.
His musical style was influenced by Claude Debussy and César Franck. However he self-identified as a Celtic Breton, writing that he was the son of a country "where the goblins populate the moor and dance by the moony nights around the menhirs; where the fairies and the enchanters - Viviane and Merlin - have as a field the forest of Brocéliande; where the spirits of the unburied dead appear all white above the waters of the Bay of the Departed."
Shortly after Ropartz died, René Dumesnil wrote in Le Monde: "There is with Ropartz a science of folklore and its proper use, which one admires; but more often than the direct use of popular motifs it is an inspiration drawn from the same soil which nourishes the work, like sap in trees."
Ropartz was also a writer of literary works, notably poetry. In his youth he published three collections of verse influenced by the Symbolist movement. In 1889 he published with Louis Tiercelin Le Parnasse Breton contemporain, an anthology of Breton poetry of the second half of the 19th century. He also participated in la Revue l'Hermine, which Tiercelin founded a short while later, in 1890.