Roger-Ducasse, Jean

Jean Roger-Ducasse – Ulysse et les sirènes

(b. Bordeaux, 18. April 1873 in Bordeaux – d. Le Taillan-Médoc, 19. Juli 1954)

Poème symphonique pour orchestre et voix de femmes
(1937)

Preface
Jean Jule Aimable Roger-Ducasse was a French composer, who studied at the Paris Conservatoire in 1892 under Gabriel Faure, André Geldage, Émile Louis Fortuné Pessard, Camille Saint-Saens, Charles-Auguste de Beriot and others. Of his teachers Fauré was the most influential mentor for Roger-Ducasse, whose “star” student he became and to whom he soon developed a close friendship. He even dedicated some of his early compositions to his friend such as the fourth movement of the First String Quartet (1900-1909), in which he included his professor’s name in musical notes (FAGD). After three years of trials, Roger-Ducasse won the second Prix de Rome in 1902 with his cantata, Alcyone. In 1909, the composer was appointed director of the singing department of the Paris educational committee. Later, from 1935-1940, he succeeded Paul Dukas after the famous composer’s death as professor of orchestration. Some of his most notable pupils were Claude Arrieu, Jean-Louis Martinet, Francis George Scott. …

read more / weiterlesen … > HERE