Déodat de Séverac
The Compositeur French Déodat de Séverac was born with Saint-Felix-Lauragais (Haute-Garonne) the July 20th 1872 and died in Céret (the Eastern Pyrenees) the March 24th 1921.
Biography
Resulting from a family of old nobility, Déodat de Séverac made its studies with Toulouse then with the Schola Cantorum of Paris, where he became the pupil of Vincent d' Indy and Albéric Magnard. It there took lessons of Orgue with Alexandre Guilmant and became assistant of Isaac Albéniz. Very attached to its origins, it joined the Languedoc, an area which attracted thereafter a certain number of the artists like Manolo Hugué, that it had met in Paris.In 1900, he wrote symphonic poems over the seasons. He put in melodies poetries of Baudelaire or Verlaine as well as provençaux worms and composed his music choral society with arrangements of texts in Catalan. He wrote two Opéra S, the Heart of the mill , which was created with the Op3era Comique of Paris on December 8th, 1909, and Héliogabale , created in the arena of Béziers with the introduction of the Catalan Cobla, group of instruments playing the premiums and the tenores (instruments out of wooden connected with the Flageolet). Its music for Piano, with the very personal style, is often coloured and coloured, as in the Chant of the Earth , which describes a rustic idylle, or the pieces In Languedoc and Baigneuses with the sun . The continuation Cerdaña , its masterpiece, illustrates its love for the southernmost soil.
He was the cantor of a regional music and supported, in 1908, a thesis on “Centralization and the small vaults. ” Claude Debussy will say that “Its music feels good”.
Principal works
- Works for piano:
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Music for the theater:
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Melodies:
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