Jean Cras, Polymath of Music and Letters
Regular price
€65.99
A01=Paul-Andre Bempechat
Author_Paul-Andre Bempechat
barzaz
Barzaz Breiz
breiz
Breton Cultural
Breton Folk
Category=AVLA
Category=AVN
Celtic musical traditions
Concerto Pour Piano
De La Ville De Paris
Docile Slave
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_music
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
French musicology
Georges Leygues
Henri Duparc
Impressionist analysis
La Tour
LBo 76a
Lombard Rhythmic
Metronome Markings
military humanitarianism
Movement's Opening Theme
Movement's Principal Theme
Movement’s Opening Theme
Movement’s Principal Theme
Nationale De Musique
Paul Gauguin
Perfect Fourth
Perfect Intervals
post-Romantic composers
Pour Piano
Salle Gaveau
Saxophone Quartet
Schola Cantorum
scientific inventions history
Sigh Motive
twentieth-century composer biography
Victimae Paschali Laudes
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754606833
- Weight: 1270g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Oct 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
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 Fauré, 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 protegé 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.
Paul-André Bempéchat studied at the Manhattan and Juilliard Schools of Music and the Sorbonne, where his mentors in piano and chamber music were Artur Balsam, Felix Galimir and Nadia Reisenberg; in musicology and comparative literature, Marie-Claire Beltrando-Patier, Pierre Brunel and Isabelle Cazeaux. A contributor to The Revised New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicans, Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, and to numerous academic and performing arts journals, Dr Bempéchat has enjoyed research and lecturing appointments at Harvard University, where he remains an Affiliate at its Center for European Studies, and at the Westminster College of the Arts of Rider University. Based in Boston and Paris, Paul-André Bempéchat sustains the career that has brought him to the Wiener Festwochen, the Caramoor Festival, Boston’s Jordan Hall, and Berlin’s Konzerthaus.
