Guy Sacre (born 1948) is a French composer, pianist and musical critic.
He is best known for writing La Musique de piano, a critical census of a large part of the piano repertoire, dealing with some 4,000 works by 272 composers.
In his compositions, Guy Sacre tries to reconnect with the French musical tradition: he is the author of Vingt-Quatre préludes and Mélodies after poems by Paul Verlaine, Jean Cocteau and Guillaume Apollinaire.
With Billy Eidi he created the association "Contrechants" intended to rediscover an unknown repertoire ("Piano au Palais-Royal" concerts from 1991 to 1995, in collaboration with the Bibliothèque nationale).
Guy Sacre is also author of radio broadcasts (Radio Suisse Romande) and conferences centered on themes of musical and literary aesthetics, such as "la musique et les éléments", "Vigny et le silence", "Apollinaire poète du souvenir", and the "masques et bergamasques" which gather Fauré and Debussy around Verlaine and Watteau.
Non-exhaustive list (to be completed)
| General | |
|---|---|
| National libraries | |
| Other | |
"Les Six" is a name given to a group of six composers, five of them French and one Swiss, who lived and worked in Montparnasse. The name, inspired by Mily Balakirev's The Five, originates in two 1920 articles by critic Henri Collet in Comœdia,. Their music is often seen as a neoclassic reaction against both the musical style of Richard Wagner and the impressionist music of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.
Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period. His early works were strongly influenced by the impressionism of Debussy and Ravel, while he later turned toward neoclassicism.
Rolande Roberte Ginabat-Falcinelli was a French organist, pianist, composer, and music educator.
Jacques Castérède was a French composer and pianist.
Jean Dubé is a Canadian concert pianist. In 2002 he won the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition.
Jean Émile Paul Cras was a 20th-century French composer and career naval officer. His musical compositions were inspired by his native Brittany, his travels to Africa, and most of all, by his sea voyages. As a naval commander he served with distinction in the Adriatic Campaign during World War I.
Sophie Lacaze is a French composer.
Maurice Vaute was a Belgian composer of classical music, conductor and music teacher.
Pierre-Octave Ferroud was a French composer of classical music.
Édith Lejet is a French composer and music educator.
Trois poèmes de Mallarmé is a sequence of three art songs by Maurice Ravel, based on poems by Stéphane Mallarmé for soprano, two flutes, two clarinets, piano, and string quartet. Composed in 1913, it was premiered on 14 January 1914, performed by Rose Féart and conducted by D.-E. Inghelbrecht, at the inaugural concert of the société musicale indépendante of the 1913–1914 season in the Salle Érard in Paris.
Jean-François Gardeil is a French baritone and theatre director. He is also the founder and artistic director of the Chants de Garonne.
Florence Katz is a contemporary French lyrical artist. A mezzo-soprano, graduated from the Conservatoire de Paris, she is also a singing teacher at the Conservatory of Bourg-la-Reine/Sceaux. Florence Katz specializes in the French repertoire. She is a recipient of the Darius Milhaud Prize.
Louis-Noël Belaubre was a French classical pianist and composer.
Billy Eidi is a French classical pianist of Lebanese background.
Michel Merlet is a French composer and pedagogue.
Robert Planel was a French composer, music pedagogue and violinist.
