Jean Cras, polymath of music and letters

著者

書誌事項

Jean Cras, polymath of music and letters

Paul-André Bempéchat

Ashgate, 2009

大学図書館所蔵 件 / 全1件

この図書・雑誌をさがす

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [529]-555) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Jean Cras (1879-1932) was a remarkable man by anyone's measure. Twice a decorated hero of the Great War, this Rear-Admiral of the French navy, scientist, inventor and moral philosopher, was also a highly esteemed composer during his lifetime, enjoying the same stature and celebrity as Faure, Debussy and Ravel. Since his death, however, both Cras and his music have been almost completely overlooked. In this, the first critical biography of Cras, Paul-Andre Bempechat situates Henri Duparc's protege as a missing link between the French post-Romantic generation of composers and the Impressionists. The book explores, both historically and analytically, the methodology by which Cras evolved his eclectic brand of Impressionism, striking the delicate balance between Celtic folk idioms and exoticisms inspired by his travels. Cras' creative legacy extends beyond the world of music to the world of science. His five patented inventions include the navigational gyrocompass, which bears his name, still in use to this day by the French navy, coast guard and boating afficionados. Bempechat draws special attention to the humanist Jean Cras and his distinguished military career - he is credited with saving the Serbian army from extinction - drawing on primary source material such as family correspondence and wartime diaries to reaffirm this composer as a true Renaissance man of the twentieth century.

目次

  • Contents: Introduction to an introduction
  • Part I The Life of Jean Cras: Background
  • Foreground
  • Dualities, pluralities, synthesis
  • Surviving Adore Floupette: faith, art, character
  • Currents - countercurrents
  • Opus posthumous.... Part II The Works: Struggle and Evolution: Feuille de route
  • Franckian engagement and disengagement: the early works (1899-1910)
  • Individuation: Polypheme and the war years (1910-1922)
  • The laboratory
  • A nod at the old sod...
  • Conclusion to an introduction...
  • Appendices
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

「Nielsen BookData」 より

詳細情報

ページトップへ