Désiré Pâque : Huit Morceaux Op. 56

1 - Conte tendre (Tender story); 2 - Ciel Gris! (Grey sky!); 3 - Improvisation; 4 - Voix des Cloches (Voice of the bells); 5 - Vieille Chanson joyeuse (Old joyous song); 6 - Berceuse; 7 - Variations; 8 - Courte Rêverie (Short reverie).
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The Belgian composer Désiré Pâque (1867-1939) trained in Liege, but embarked on a remarkable musical journey in the early 1900s which found him teaching and performing (as an organist) in Sofia, Athens, Lisbon, Germany and Switzerland, before settling in Paris at around the time of the start of WW1. He eventually moved to Bessancourt in northern France in the late 1920s. Pâque was a friend of Busoni, and himself a compositional theorist, developing a composition style described as "adjonction constante d'éléments musicaux nouveaux", where he used a stream of themes, but without breaking them up in further development. He was a prolific composer, and completed 8 symphonies, an opera, ten string quartets, choral works and much more. See http://www.bayard-nizet.com/Paque_en.html for more details of his life and aesthetic.

This set of 8 pieces from 1912 (at about the time he was a house-composer for the German publisher Simrock) shows a remarkable stylistic variety and cosmopolitanism - compare the first and last pieces, which might have been written by a student of Franck with the avant-garde 'Variations' which are quite cutting-edge for the time. The Wikipedia catalogue lists these pieces as the third instalment of twelve sets of 'Effusions Lyriques'.
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[adolfodeboeck]

tampoco conocía a este compositor, muy interesante.

[PSearPianist]

@adolfodeboeck Gracias. El compositor es realmente interesante!

[Rickeeey1]

Never heard about this composer. Interesting music. Sounds somewhat impressionistic.

[PSearPianist]

@Rickeeey1 Thank you. I'm not sure about the impressionism - I think the overall flavour is mildly Germanic. I would like to hear some of his later works.

[hornsea58]

Thanks a lot!! Happy New Year! Warmest congratulation to You and your beloved ones.