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Denise Isabelle Roger (21 January 1924 – 15 November 2005) was an award-winning French composer who wrote both instrumental
[1] and vocal works.
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Roger was born in
Colombes , Hauts-de-Seine in the northwest suburbs of Paris.
[4] She entered the
Paris Conservatoire in 1933 at age nine to study composition, piano and voice. Her teachers included Jean Batella,
Henri Busser , Jeanne Chapard, the brothers
Jean Gallon and
Noel Gallon ,
Yvonne Lefebure ,
Marguerite Long and Mme Massart.
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Roger received several first prizes in music:
1934 Paris Conservatoire;
1942 Paris Conservatoire;
1948 Paris Conservatoire; and
1952 Concours International in Geneva.
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Roger set works by the following writers to music for solo and ensemble voices:
Guillaume Apollinaire ,
Jean-Antoine de Baif ,
Robert Brasillach ,
Paul Claudel ,
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ,
Friedrich Hoelderlin ,
Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Andre Maurel,
Gerard de Nerval ,
Rainer Maria Rilke ,
Arthur Rimbaud ,
Pierre de Ronsard ,
Alain Suied ,
Georg Trakl , and
Paul Verlaine .
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Roger’s compositions were published by Southern Music.
[6] Her works included:
Chamber
Ciselures (brass quintet)
[2]
Climats (brass quintet)
[2]
Jeux de Cuivre (solo tuba)
[9]
Sonatine (flute and piano)
[6]
Souvenance (tuba and piano)
[9]
String Quartets No. 1 and 2
[3]
Supplique et Polychromie (brass quintet)
[2]
Three Romances (clarinet and piano)
[10]
Orchestra
Concertino (oboe and orchestra)
[3]
Concerto (piano and orchestra)
[3]
Piano
Vocal
many songs based on texts by others
[8]
[3]
References
^ Stern, Susan (1978). Women composers: a handbook . Metuchen London: the Scarecrow press. p. 143.
ISBN
978-0-8108-1138-6 .
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"Roger, Denise – brassapedia" . Retrieved 2024-05-08 .
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j Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International Encyclopedia of Women Composers . Books & Music (USA). p. 595.
ISBN
978-0-9617485-0-0 .
^ Giraudet, Jean-Paul (2013-03-25).
"Denise Roger" . musicalics.com (in French). Retrieved 2024-05-08 .
^ Pfitzinger, Scott (2017-03-01).
Composer Genealogies: A Compendium of Composers, Their Teachers, and Their Students . Rowman & Littlefield. p. 454.
ISBN
978-1-4422-7225-5 .
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c Boenke, H. Alais (1988-10-19).
Flute Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog . Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 104.
ISBN
978-0-313-36831-8 .
^ Heinrich, Adel (1991). Organ and harpsichord music by women composers: an annotated catalog . Music reference collection (1. publ ed.). New York: Greenwood Pr. p. 317.
ISBN
978-0-313-26802-1 .
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"Denise Isabelle Roger Song Texts | LiederNet" . www.lieder.net . Retrieved 2024-05-08 .
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b Association, Tubists Universal Brotherhood (1994).
T.U.B.A. Journal . Tubists Universal Brotherhood Association. pp. 22, 25.
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Trois Romances Movement III - Denise Roger . Retrieved 2024-05-08 – via www.youtube.com.
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