Gustave Charpentier et le prix de Rome
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CD-Book. Glossa. Prix de Rome n. 3.
Gustave Charpentier is wrongly viewed as a ‘one-work’ composer with the ‘Naturalist’ opera Louise, premiered in 1900. Yet who knows that, although it is set in working-class Montmartre in the Paris of 1900, the opera was partly composed on the hills of Rome, more than ten years earlier? For, in fact, Charpentier’s years in Italy (1888-90) turned out to be the most productive period in his creative life. There he wrote two masterly symphonies, one depicting ‘Impressions d’Italie’ which continued to enjoy great success right up to the Second World War, and another, more experimental work calling for three soloists, chorus and large symphony orchestra: La Vie du poète. It was thanks to the quality of his chorus La Fête des myrtes and his masterly Wagnerian cantata Didon that Charpentier won the famous Prix de Rome in 1887, thus gaining his ticket for an enchanting stay at the Villa Medici.
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Alexandre Dratwicki – Le prix de Rome de musique (1803-1968)
Michela Niccolai – De Dieuze à Rome, en passant par Montmartre : portrait d’un compositeur bohémien
Gustave Charpentier – Mémoires (extraits)
Alexandre Dratwicki – Didon, un exemple de relecture des mythes antiques
Michela Niccolai – Charpentier et la « symphonie-drame » : annotations en marge de La Vie du poète
Alexandre Dratwicki – Les Impressions d’Italie à l’heure des symphonies « pittoresques »
Livret : Didon ; La Vie du poète.
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publication date : 29/08/25