Paul Wehage

Paul Wehage (born on April 2nd 1963 Grand Forks, North Dakota, the United States) is a Compositeur, Leader, Saxophoniste and American Musicologue.

Biography

Paul Wehage studied at the University of Texas with Austin before entering to the Conservatoire of Paris where it gained a First price of Saxophone in 1990. In parallel, it followed courses deprived with the soprano Frenchwoman Renee Mazella.

Wehage began its professional path as concert performer, in various whole of French and American music. Its collaboration with Jean Françaix gave rise to several new works, the such version for soprano saxophone and orchestra of the Clock of Flora , the version for three vocal soloists and quartet of saxophones of the musical comedy Apostrope and the last work of Jean Françaix Last nines Historiettes de Tallemand of Réaux for voice of baritone, saxophone tenor and piano. Antoine Tisné, Gian Paolo Chiti, Jeffrey Stolet were among the many type-setters who wrote works for Wehage.

Its work musicologic on the work of Germaine Tailleferre revealed aspects surprising on work and the life of this type-setter, and also on becoming to it works of Tailleferre after its death. Paul Wehage orchestrated two works left in reduction for piano: Three Studies for piano and orchestra and Under the ramparts of Athens , incidental music for the part of Paul Claudel. Currently, Wehage works with the rebuilding of the opera It was a small ship (booklet of Henri Jeanson).

Among the most notable works of Paul Wehage, let us quote his Stabat MATER for chorus of women, the Concerto for alto saxophone and orchestra , a series of works for saxophone and piano, from of which Royanji for saxophone double bass and piano, mysterious Palisades for alto saxophone and piano, and also of works for instrument solo, organ, piano, orchestra of harmony and various units. Wehage is also known for its series of transcriptions for saxophone of works of Bach.

List principal works

  • "Artemis" for piccolo

  • " Fantasy" concert; on “Jingle Bels” for Orchestra of harmony
  • " Concerto for alto saxophone and orchestre"
  • " Homage to Duras" for alto saxophone alone
  • " Idylle" for trumpet, quartet with qordes and organ
  • " Lucy' S Song" for soprano, chorus, quartet of saxophones SATB and organ (English text of Charles Dickens)
  • " Maïa" for flute and toothing-stone
  • " Go Burlesque" for saxophone low (tenor) and piano
  • " Motet" for 5 alto saxophones (clarinets, quintet with coppers, string orchestra)
  • " Nara" for trumpet and organ
  • " Nocturne" for Toothing-stone
  • " Mysterious Palisades: Topic and seven variations on a topic civique" for alto saxophone and piano
  • " Be a prelude to, Toccata and Fugue" for alto saxophone and organ
  • " Personnelles" questions; for voice means and piano (French text of Jean-Thierry Bushel)
  • " Responsio: Six Suites" for saxophone alone
  • " Ryoanji" for Saxophone double bass (double bassoon) and piano
  • " Scenes of Ballet" for orchestra of harmony
  • " Six Essays" for saxophone alone (young people interpreters)
  • " Sonate" for alto saxophone and piano
  • " Sonata da Chiesa" for organ
  • " Sonata Eroica" for trombone and piano
  • " Sonata in form of Trio" for oboe, clarinet and bassoon
  • " Sonatine" for two identical saxophones
  • " Stabat Mater" as a female or mixed chorus has cappella
  • " Continuation in Four Mouvements" for toothing-stone
  • " Latignacienne" continuation; for organ
  • " Snapshots" vacation; for trumpet and piano (young people interpreters)
  • " Three Canonic Inventions" for alto saxophone and saxophone tenor

Works written for Paul Wehage

  • Jean-Thierry Bushel

    • " Arlequin" for soprano saxophone and piano
    • " I" incantation; for alto saxophone, soprano voice and organ
    • " Night - In Memoriam Antoine Tisné" for soprano saxophone solo
    • " Sonatine" for soprano saxophone and piano
    • " Transcaucassienne" continuation; for alto saxophone solo

  • Edmond J. Campion

    • " Rounds" for alto saxophone and band

  • Gian Paolo Chiti

    • "Concertino" for saxophone tenor and octuor of violoncellos
    • " Troppi per Chartres" for alto saxophone and string quartet

  • Gloria Coates

    • "Reaching for the Moon" for alto saxophone solo
    • " Nightmusic" for saxophone tenor, piano and percussion AD libitum

  • Carson Cooman

    • "Ancient Airs" for soprano saxophone solo
    • " Ace to the Sun" for alto saxophone solo
    • " Dances off the Holy Fool: Sonata" for alto saxophone and piano
    • " In The Fire off Images: Three Etudes" for alto saxophone and piano
    • " Off Songs and Swirls: Furnace Lyric Pieces" for soprano saxophone and piano
    • " Canticle" passion; for soprano saxophone and tubular Chime
    • " Silent Prisms: Meditation" for saxophone tenor and piano

  • Jean Françaix

    • " Apostrophe" , musical comedy, version for three votes and quartet of saxophones SATB
    • " The Clock of Flore" , version for soprano saxophone and orchestra
    • " Eight Historiettes de Tallemand of Réaux" for voice of baritone, saxophone tenor and piano (last works of Jean Françaix)
    • " Be a prelude to, Sarabande and Gigue" , version for soprano saxophone and piano
    • " Tema idiot Variazioni" , version for alto saxophone and piano

  • Philip Goddard

    • "The Seen and the Unseen" for alto saxophone, saxophone tenor and piano

  • Pascale Jakubowski

    • " Concertino" for soprano saxophone and octuor of violoncellos
    • " Two Préludes" for alto saxophone alone
    • " Ibéji V" for alto saxophone and accordion

  • Joseph-François Kremer

    • " Saxophonie I" for soprano saxophone
    • " Saxophonie II - Sazeriphonie" for soprano saxophone
    • " Symphony with Quatre" , version for flute, alto saxophone, violoncello and piano

  • Ivana Loudova

    • "AD Caelestem Harmoniam" for octuor of violoncellos and celestial voice (organ) (soprano saxophone with creation)

  • Elmir Mirzoev

    • "Bahir" for alto saxophone, low clarinet, bassoon and organ

  • Sally Reid

    • "Fiuggi Fanfare" for soprano saxophone and quartet of saxophones SATB

  • Indra Small channel

    • " Three Episodes from Springtime" for alto saxophone (soprano saxophone) and accordion

  • Dory Magaly Ruiz Lastres

    • " Danzon" for alto saxophone solo

  • Ludovic Selmi

    • "Full Lune" for alto saxophone and octuor of violoncellos

  • Jeffrey Stolet

    • "Frankenstein" , opera for soprano, tenor and baritone, alto saxophone, piano, string quartet and electroacoustic
    • " Frankenstein Concerto" for alto saxophone and orchestra
    • " The Hildegarde Game" for two sopranos, baritone, quartet of saxophones SATB, toothing-stone and electroacoustic
    • " Two parts extracted from " To Eat the Last Messiah" for alto saxophone and band

  • Antoine Tisné

    • " Night with the aurore" for soprano saxophone and string orchestra
    • " Labyrintus Sonorus" for quartet of saxophones SATB
    • " Monodie I for a Space sacré" for soprano saxophone solo
    • " Monodie II for a Space sacré" for alto saxophone solo
    • " Monodie V for a Space crowned for alto saxophone solo
    • " Offertorium for Chartres" for alto saxophone and string quartet
    • " Shades of feu" for alto saxophone and orchestra or piano

  • Sara Torquati

    • "SaxSolo" for alto saxophone solo

  • Joelle Wallach

    • " Sweet Briar Elegies" for soprano saxophone and octuor of violoncellos

  • Kate Waring

    • "Dadelus Sonata" for soprano saxophone and piano

  • Linda Worsley

    • "Gymnopédie" for soprano saxophone and quartet of saxophones SATB
    • " Miramonte Suite" for soprano saxophone and piano

Selective discography

  • "Antoine Tisné - Shades of Feu" Wehage/Svarovsky/Brno Phil. Orch Rem REM311279 June 1996

  • "Paul Wehage - Integral of the Continuations of Violoncellos of J.S. Bach" Musik Fabrik Catalog: mfcd001-002 Audio CD (2002)
  • " In New Look At Counterpoint" (Wehage performs Steve Reich' S " New York Counterpoint") Amiata Catalog Records: #496 Audio CD (1997)
  • " Saxofolies" Epm Catalog Music: #1131 (1990)
  • Pierre Vellones - Concerto in F, Rastelli, Prelude and Rondo French, Sevillanes, Persan Entertainment , by Paul Wehage, the Orchestra of the Radio and television of Cracow, to dir. Jose Maria Florencio jr. APV.1999-002

External bonds

  • the official site of Paul Wehage, with French biography

  • the page of Paul Wehage in his editor - Musik Fabrik Music Publishing

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