If only he had lived past age 36...

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  • Опубликовано: 12 дек 2024

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  • @GavLikesOpera
    @GavLikesOpera 2 месяца назад +195

    See, this is why we need more channels like this, I'd NEVER find this on my own

    • @PianoCurio
      @PianoCurio  2 месяца назад +19

      Love to see comments like this. Many more deep cuts and rare finds to come, my friend 👍

    • @SilvertortoisePiano
      @SilvertortoisePiano 2 месяца назад +1

      Damn right, maybe would hear on classic fm but not know who it was and be driving so can’t look up 😂

    • @deodatdechampignac
      @deodatdechampignac 2 месяца назад +1

      Soit un peu plus curieux, et sort du carcan germanique !

    • @RichardWagner-hi4zn
      @RichardWagner-hi4zn 2 месяца назад

      @@deodatdechampignac If the issue is nationalistic, then please name us the French equivalents of Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Bruckner, Wagner etc, so that we can enjoy the French composers.
      PS: Imagine you were English, Spanish or Italian, would you say the same? lol

  • @maribelfarnsworth4565
    @maribelfarnsworth4565 2 месяца назад +24

    I had never heard of this composer before finding him on your channel. Thank you!

  • @edgenovese
    @edgenovese 2 месяца назад +11

    A new discovery for me. Brilliant as the title suggest. If the world could only be filled with dreamers instead of warriors.... Far ahead of his time... RIP

  • @quequitoAR
    @quequitoAR 2 месяца назад +19

    I've never heard of this composer until now. This is very beautiful and left me longing for more of him. Thanks for this!

  • @gojusjoe
    @gojusjoe 2 месяца назад +70

    I didn't think I'd like it based on the introductory notes. But I found myself unable to stop listening. A wonderful piece!

  • @3YZ-TS191
    @3YZ-TS191 Месяц назад +2

    Gorgeous. Inspiring. Give us MORE of this! ... please.

  • @fredrickpritchardpiano4103
    @fredrickpritchardpiano4103 8 дней назад

    What gorgeous harmonies!

  • @MelodiousHeart1
    @MelodiousHeart1 2 месяца назад +5

    A hauntingly beautiful piece, played with great sensitivity! Thanks for introducing me to a composer I didn't know about.

  • @johannesbluemink4581
    @johannesbluemink4581 2 месяца назад +5

    Wow. Once again YT gives us treasures, to listen to over and over again!

  • @eddydelrio1303
    @eddydelrio1303 2 месяца назад +4

    I studied through all course work of DMA level and failed to note this composer. Thank you for this new understanding.

  • @amusicment4829
    @amusicment4829 2 месяца назад +3

    Great coincidence…Just heard a piano trio by Dupont this past summer at the Napa Valley Chamber Music series that blew me away. Absolutely wonderfully written music. Thank you.

  • @kevin-parratt-artist
    @kevin-parratt-artist 2 месяца назад +15

    I wonder if he ever had the chance to communicate with Erik Satie.
    I can imagine them sitting by a lakeside... not talking a lot, mostly in silence, taking in the day, .. occasionally exchanging poignant words, .. in mutual understanding.
    I see them in a painting by Seurat.

  • @garymcaleer6112
    @garymcaleer6112 2 месяца назад +16

    Impressionist music is some of the most beautiful and reflective of life's journey.

  • @glitchglork
    @glitchglork 2 месяца назад +6

    Thanks !

  • @kennethmcgee-x5i
    @kennethmcgee-x5i 2 месяца назад +1

    the piece was beautiful. Would love to hear more.

  • @guylevinberg1093
    @guylevinberg1093 2 месяца назад +1

    This is amazing. Melodic and lyrical yet with such fine form and transitions

  • @Liam-vs9vg
    @Liam-vs9vg 2 месяца назад +6

    Nice work ! I shall seek deeper in the work of this neglected composer.

  • @HAEngel-cr5gp
    @HAEngel-cr5gp 2 месяца назад +1

    Exquisite....a jewel.

  • @sorwell
    @sorwell 2 месяца назад +25

    Never heard of him, it's really beautiful and mysterious. Thank you!

  • @Steinweg100
    @Steinweg100 2 месяца назад +12

    Whilst not morbid, it glances past life into somewhere else! I wish I could still play! You bring us something very philosphical, Thank you!

  • @robertcrucilla4689
    @robertcrucilla4689 2 месяца назад +1

    Thank you for turning me on to Dupont!

  • @RoZita870
    @RoZita870 2 месяца назад +2

    Very lovely and Debussy-esque.

  • @thomashenden71
    @thomashenden71 2 месяца назад +8

    Sounds like Satie and Debussy, however more sad and mysterious.

    • @Docom13
      @Docom13 2 месяца назад +1

      Much more Debussy than Satie imo.

  • @joshuaharper372
    @joshuaharper372 2 месяца назад +2

    Beautiful!

  • @rockmtalpunkstuff1535
    @rockmtalpunkstuff1535 2 месяца назад +7

    Truly beautiful!
    I got to discover him because a classmate played the complete La maison dans les dunes for his exam. It became a personal favourite of mine, I definitely recommend to listen to it.
    Thanks for posting

  • @TOM-x2t8i
    @TOM-x2t8i 2 месяца назад

    Love french composer from this period, never heard of him ! Thank you very much
    There is something different with this "late romantic/impresionnist/pre modern" harmonies, man...

  • @bifeldman
    @bifeldman 2 месяца назад +3

    Very nice.

  • @aidankoop2110
    @aidankoop2110 2 месяца назад +3

    2:52 was the best part of this piece. Unbelievably beautiful

    • @PianoCurio
      @PianoCurio  2 месяца назад +4

      When a composer writes ‘ppp’ you know it has to be a special moment

  • @ziriyab
    @ziriyab Месяц назад

    Beauty in sonic form

  • @orgue2999
    @orgue2999 2 месяца назад +9

    Check his Poème for piano quintet, it was available with its score on RUclips not so long ago but has now been deleted.. You can also find all his piano music on the fromsuntosun channel, and his symphonic poem “Chant de la destinée” on the Musickis channel.

    • @PianoCurio
      @PianoCurio  2 месяца назад +6

      Great rec, thanks! This was new to me. Once again I'm astounded by the wealth of the piano quintet repertoire, it is a top-tier chamber subgenre for me.

    • @vpdemantova
      @vpdemantova 2 месяца назад +2

      ​@@PianoCurio same here!

  • @eriksatieofficiel
    @eriksatieofficiel 2 месяца назад

    This is a very nice piece.

  • @olivierherment1188
    @olivierherment1188 2 месяца назад +1

    Merci

  • @channelelectronique
    @channelelectronique 2 месяца назад +11

    Wow! This piece perfectly captures and evokes the crepuscular moments before bedtime. What a beauty.

  • @MahlonBouldin
    @MahlonBouldin 2 месяца назад +4

    So great. I'd never heard of him either! Thank you for opening this up to me.

  • @StanleyGrill
    @StanleyGrill 3 дня назад +1

    How on earth did the RUclips algorithm know I sight read through this today!

    • @PianoCurio
      @PianoCurio  3 дня назад

      Hmm did you google Dupont maybe? It knows all!

  • @BsktImp
    @BsktImp 2 месяца назад

    An unexpectedly contemporary soundworld! I can imagine this played poignantly on the flavour-of-the-month felt piano.

  • @Mooseman327
    @Mooseman327 2 месяца назад +7

    Lili Boulanger, Nadia's younger sister, died four years later (in 1918) at the age of 24, also from tuberculosis. Boulanger won the Prix de Rome prize in 1913, at the age of 19, the first woman to ever do so.

  • @enriquesanchez2001
    @enriquesanchez2001 29 дней назад

    😍😍

  • @4candles
    @4candles 2 месяца назад +6

    Beautiful music. I've been wanting to hear Dupont's concertante works for some time, but this certainly whets my appetite for the bigger works!

  • @angreagach
    @angreagach 2 месяца назад +3

    His name isn't given in the video or title. Several of the comments mention "Dupont." Searched and found he was Gabriel Dupont (1 March 1878 - 2 August 1914).

    • @PianoCurio
      @PianoCurio  2 месяца назад +2

      Yes, and you can find my notes on the composer and piece in the description

    • @angreagach
      @angreagach 2 месяца назад

      @@PianoCurio Right you are. Should have looked closer. My bad!

    • @PianoCurio
      @PianoCurio  2 месяца назад

      @@angreagach No worries! It’s actually something I need to think about more since not everyone automatically reads the description. Thanks for watching!

  • @dwacheopus
    @dwacheopus 2 месяца назад +3

    This is so beautiful

  • @malcolmdale9607
    @malcolmdale9607 2 месяца назад +16

    If only Carl Filtsch (1830-1845) had lived past fifteen. He was a pupil of Chopin and you can find some of his beautiful music on RUclips,

    • @PianoCurio
      @PianoCurio  2 месяца назад +7

      Filtsch is the youngest example I can think of; another is Ludwig Schuncke (1810-1834), who might have competed with the likes of Liszt or Thalberg had he lived longer. Tuberculosis was brutal without modern medicine.

    • @jacenarsenault8223
      @jacenarsenault8223 2 месяца назад +6

      @@PianoCurioJulian Scriabin is another obscure one, and he died when he was only 11

    • @flooo5071
      @flooo5071 2 месяца назад +4

      @@PianoCurio Lili Boulanger (sister of the famous Nadja Boulanger) also wrote nice stuff

    • @PianoCurio
      @PianoCurio  2 месяца назад +3

      Had no idea about Julian Scriabin, how tragic.

  • @quaver4320
    @quaver4320 2 месяца назад +3

    I was lucky to hear one of his violin pieces at a recital a few years ago.

  • @cjg8763
    @cjg8763 2 месяца назад +9

    The melody just after 1:16 reminds me of UP! (for a moment, anyway)

    • @timweather3847
      @timweather3847 2 месяца назад

      What? Those stupidly named VW cars?

    • @cjg8763
      @cjg8763 2 месяца назад

      @@timweather3847 Up, the 2009 animated Disney/Pixar movie. There's a very brief moment where the melody reminds me of the melody from the Up music.

  • @octopuszombie8744
    @octopuszombie8744 2 месяца назад +1

    Crazy voicing

  • @robert-skibelo
    @robert-skibelo 2 месяца назад

    Nice piece. Cries out for a proper performance by a human.

  • @derby2510
    @derby2510 Месяц назад

    Very nice. Very French,

  • @ИгорьСазонов-т9л
    @ИгорьСазонов-т9л 2 месяца назад +1

    Предвестник Голливудской музыки для кино❤

  • @JarmezGD
    @JarmezGD 24 дня назад +1

    I was wondering if someone could explain the time stamps? Is it some kind of musical form I’m not familiar with?

    • @PianoCurio
      @PianoCurio  24 дня назад +1

      They are informal labels and personal impressions that I applied to different sections using non-theoretical terms, so feel free to take them or leave them as you wish.

  • @alexstewart8097
    @alexstewart8097 2 месяца назад +1

    1- Oh, poor me who had wrongly thought this Impressionist had only lived 2 about 33 years of age, or so. What a great Master nevertheless ; don't you agree Piano Curio?.
    2- It'd hurt none, but on the contrary if those who think oTherweiss would give him another try, a second better listen , a deeper listen at that, for THE man's soul as reflected in His delicate bird song IS sublimely glorious , celestially so in more ways than just and jusTly One, indeed!
    3- ...Shema!!!

  • @Pouncer9000
    @Pouncer9000 2 месяца назад +3

    From the description: ".. Dupont's style was already developed in its embrace of French modernism". Thank you, thank you for not using the I-word!

  • @scronx
    @scronx 2 месяца назад +1

    What a lovely piece of REAL MUSIC. I can't wait to use it as a church prelude and to see what other curios you've served up. Do you know Jongen's Clair de lune and Soleil a midi?

    • @PianoCurio
      @PianoCurio  2 месяца назад +2

      Those are new to me, thanks for the recommendations!

    • @scronx
      @scronx 2 месяца назад +1

      @@PianoCurio Happy to. After writing that I was delighted to see you feature another organ composer -- the great Widor, tragically forgotten by the musical "mainstream" today!

  • @toothlesstoe
    @toothlesstoe 2 месяца назад

    Interesting

  • @RModillo
    @RModillo 2 месяца назад

    Fascinating piano sound. A French antique?

    • @PianoCurio
      @PianoCurio  2 месяца назад

      I was going for something like that, but I actually used a Steinway B with a close mic, believe it or not.

    • @RModillo
      @RModillo 2 месяца назад

      @@PianoCurio Maybe it is the una corda, but there is some very distinctive timbre in the low register during quiet bits.

  • @PabloMelendez1969
    @PabloMelendez1969 2 месяца назад

    Once all canon composers are restored with whole beat, we will find that there was a lot of atmosphere and meditation in music before impressionism.

  • @MegaMech
    @MegaMech 2 месяца назад +2

    You could say the title for pretty much every composer save Haydn.

    • @PianoCurio
      @PianoCurio  2 месяца назад +2

      True… or Leo Ornstein (1893-2002), I think he showed us just about everything he had in him.

    • @ensiehsafary7633
      @ensiehsafary7633 2 месяца назад +1

      Or Chopin

    • @MegaMech
      @MegaMech 2 месяца назад +1

      @@ensiehsafary7633 Chopin died at 39 likely of tuberculosis. So, no, also Chopin.

  • @neeltjebooysen2688
    @neeltjebooysen2688 2 месяца назад

    No way in that first picture you show you had to play 9 notes together with 5 fingers?

  • @clementpoon120
    @clementpoon120 Месяц назад

    at least he lived longer than mozart

  • @RobinLSL
    @RobinLSL 2 месяца назад +1

    Still longer than Schubert and Mozart!

    • @PianoCurio
      @PianoCurio  2 месяца назад +5

      Right, but at least the world knows the music of Schubert and Mozart!

  • @trevordaviesable
    @trevordaviesable Месяц назад

    Who is the composer ?

    • @PianoCurio
      @PianoCurio  Месяц назад

      Gabriel Dupont (bio and info about the piece in the description)

  • @ChrisBreemer
    @ChrisBreemer 2 месяца назад +3

    A wonderful piece ! Dupont is a great discovery. This is a good performance (or is it synthetic ?) but I must say the loud key clicking noises got on my nerves 🙄🙄

    • @PianoCurio
      @PianoCurio  2 месяца назад +1

      The clicking was a result of going for an “intimate” recording, but perhaps I got carried away with it. I will note this feedback for the future, thanks for listening! (I perform all of my recordings in Pianoteq, by the way, so it’s not a traditional recording in that sense)

    • @realraven2000
      @realraven2000 2 месяца назад +1

      The choice of a more „uprighty“ sound was quite nice, you could have turned down hammer noise and added a touch more room. I would definitely prefer more dynamics, esp. the pp sections. Pianoteq is quite a wonderful instrument I have been using it for years.

    • @PianoCurio
      @PianoCurio  2 месяца назад +2

      @@realraven2000 this is great feedback, thank you. I am far from mastering Pianoteq but I am learning more and more how to get what I want out of it. Each video will be better than the last.

  • @funkygh
    @funkygh 2 месяца назад

    Who's playing here?

    • @PianoCurio
      @PianoCurio  2 месяца назад +1

      This is my own recording

  • @isaiasramosgarcia9771
    @isaiasramosgarcia9771 2 месяца назад

    who is the author?

    • @PianoCurio
      @PianoCurio  2 месяца назад

      Gabriel Dupont (more info on the composer and piece in the description)

  • @patrickstults3132
    @patrickstults3132 2 месяца назад

    Clearly a fan of Debussy.

  • @ciararespect4296
    @ciararespect4296 2 месяца назад

    This is great but Chopin only lived until 39. This is French impressionism

    • @Seleuce
      @Seleuce Месяц назад

      Was thinking that right away. And Mozart 36 years, Schubert 32, Bellini 34, Mendelsohn 38 and many more. All of these, incl. Chopin, showed exceptional musical genius as children already, though.

  • @tomarmstrong1281
    @tomarmstrong1281 2 месяца назад

    As much as I hate to admit, AI is snapping at the heels of credible music composition.

    • @hx0ad5
      @hx0ad5 2 месяца назад +2

      ? what does this mean in the context of this video i'm so confused

    • @Pouncer9000
      @Pouncer9000 2 месяца назад +1

      What's your problem

  • @KeenBulldozer
    @KeenBulldozer 27 дней назад

    I think it's pretty tepid!

  • @iainlay1913
    @iainlay1913 2 месяца назад

    Sounds like an anemic Debussy. Nice though.

  • @jacobnix6313
    @jacobnix6313 2 месяца назад

    sounds a lot like grieg

  • @YihaoChen-db4yy
    @YihaoChen-db4yy 2 месяца назад

    Mozart at 35💀

  • @pianoredux7516
    @pianoredux7516 2 месяца назад

    Quit hiding behind an alias and identify yourself, pianist.

    • @PianoCurio
      @PianoCurio  2 месяца назад

      🥸 Sinbad the sailor

  • @pierregarcia2083
    @pierregarcia2083 2 месяца назад

    could be a song of Kate Bush's