Le manoir de Rosemonde
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Channel: LIMO Recording Studio · 2016 · Music
Le manoir de Rosemonde
Henri Duparc composed Le manoir de Rosemonde, a song for voice and piano, in 1879. It was probably published around 1900. It has a libretto by Robert de Bonnières and was dedicated to Monsieur Robert de Bonnières.
Henri Duparc was a French composer of the late Romantic period. Duparc was born in Paris. He studied piano with César Franck at the Jesuit College in the Vaugirard district and became one of his first composition pupils. Following military service in the Franco-Prussian War, he married Ellen MacSwinney, from Scotland, on 9 November 1871. In the same year, he joined with Saint-Saëns and Romain Bussine to found the Société Nationale de Musique Moderne. Duparc is best known for his seventeen mélodies ("art songs") with texts by poets such as Baudelaire, Gautier, Leconte de Lisle, and Goethe. These pieces are considered by many to be among the greatest compositions by any composer in this form.
