Gabriel Dupont (1878-1914)

[Santo Neuenwelt]

Those interested in his chamber music can hear substantial soundbites of his Journée de Printemps for Violin & Piano (1901) http://www.editionsilvertrust.com/dupont-journee.htm and his Poème for Piano Quintet (1911) http://www.editionsilvertrust.com/dupont-poeme.htm

[matesic]

I enjoyed Roz's historical tour of Caen, accompanied by piano and 6 flutes! I can see that 12 minutes of this combination might be too much of a good thing but the present length now seems perfect and I wouldn't be tempted to make the additional cut

[eschiss1]

re the Poème, it was _published_ by Heugel in 1911, the date E.Sil. gives for composition, but I'm not sure when it was composed (is there a ms lying around?)... (allmusic.com says 1910, but as usual their contributors give no sources.) (Also, would it be more accurate to say he concentrated mostly on opera or on composing songs? There seem to be a fair number more of those in his output...)

[Ebubu]

There's a recording of his opera ANTAR, on Youtube, from Kiel.

[jdperdrix]

Antar is still available in the download section of this forum (thanks to Berlin Expat!):http://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php/topic,5305.msg55867.html#msg55867

[Ebubu]

There's also another 1 act opera, La Cabrera, which has been recorded on Bongiovanni.
And there's a recording of the overture of La Farce du Cuvier, which I can put my hands on, and upload, for those who might be interested.
No trace of La Glu, though...

[Alan Howe]

You can find the Bongiovanni recording on YouTube. It sounds absolutely awful to me in terms of sound and singing; one for hardened adventurers only...

[adriano]

I too I have this (dreadfully sung and balanced) Bongiovanni CD...

[eschiss1]

There was a concert of his songs just last night the 4th at the University of Iowa (Iowa City, Voxman Music Building*), I see in a quick Google search. Hopefully not a one-and-gone-sort of thing.

*Named, I'm going to assume, after Himie Voxman...