Paul Gilson

Paul Gilson (* 15. June 1865 in Brussels, Belgium † 3. April 1942 in Brussels, Belgium) was a Belgian composer, professor and a musician.

lives

1866 drew the parental family from Brussels to Ruisbroek in the Belgian province Brabant. There it received also as a small boy first music instruction piano and something harmony teachings of the monastery organists, to the conductor of the Kirchenchores and the local fanfare orchestra Augusts Cantillon. Against 1880 it wrote here also its first works for choir or fanfare orchestra. This proximity to the choir and to the blowing orchestra he maintained also as a composer and her is noticeable afterwards also in its Symphoni works. Landläufig it is called father of the Belgian blowing music, since it composed levelful works for this medium.

It completed its study at the conservatoire in Brussels with François Augusts Gevaert (1828 - 1908) composition and with Charles Duyck harmony teachings and counterpoint. 1889 he became winner of the Prix de Rome with its Kantate Sinai.

In Brussels concert lives has it on the one hand the operas of smelling pool of broadcasting corporations Wagner and on the other hand the colourful orchestra play in the works of the composers of the so-called Russian national school (Nikolaj Rimskij Korsakow, Alexander Glasunow and Alexander Skrjabin) know and estimate learned. With César Antonowitsch Cui (1835-1918) and the music publisher Mitrofan Petrowitsch Belajeff (1836-1904) it maintained an intensive correspondence. The three composers before mentioned visited it all.

From 1899 to 1904 he was a professor for harmony teachings at the conservatoire in Brussels and until 1906 at the conservatoire in Antwerp. 1909 he was appointed from the ministry for education and cultural to the supervisor for general music instruction in Belgium. This position stopped he until 1930 .

it created 1924 together with Marcel Poot (1901 - 1988) and Maurice Schoemaker (1890 - 1964) the magazine La revue of musicals belge. Up to the last expenditure of this magazine in December 1939 he remained editor-in-chief.

He was the mental father of the group of Les Synthétistes in which he former students united, in order to incorporate with bundled Kraft the music everyday life founded contemporary works. Even if the individual members of this group (René Bernier, Francis de Bourguignon, Théo de Joncker, Marcel Poot, Maurice Schoemaker, Jules Strens and Robert Otlet) did not achieve in each case and with different intensity the large goal, then they were however in all mouth.

As a composer it ranks among the most well-known Belgians. Its Œuvre proves more than 100 Symphoni works. Among connoisseurs it is considered as the heart of the romantic, symphonischen music tradition in Belgium. Broad lyric poetry, topic table thinking and first of all a remarkable control the Orchesterkolorits distinguish its Œuvre.

works

of works for orchestra

• 1890 Alla Marcia rhapsody for caper orchestras
• 1890 rhapsody à la marcia
• 1892 La Mer 4 Symphoni sketches
  1. Lever de soleil
  2. Chants Danses de Matelots Crépuscule
  3. Tempête
  4. et
• 1892 - 1893 Melodies Ecossaises for caper orchestra
  1. The Flowers OF The Forest
  2. Sweet May Morning
  3. Jig and Song
• 1900 Ouverture Symphonique No. 1
• Alvar
• 1903 Ouverture Symphonique No. 2
• 1904 Ouverture Symphonique No. 3
• 1929 Parafrazen OI Vlaamse Volksliederen
• Sailors thanks

of works for Blasorchster

• 1902 Concerto pour saxophones n°1
• 1903 variation symphonique soleil Chants
• de for Blechbläser 1892/ 1925 La Mer 4 Symphoni sketches for Symphoni blowing orchestra transliterated
  1. of Arthur Prevost
  2. Lever Danses de Matelots Crépuscule
  3. Tempête
  4. 1930
• Tornacum 1930
• Grande Marche you et Centenaire
• 1948 Moeder for speakers (in) and fanfare orchestra
• Binché
• Brabant - marche militaire
• Danse geurrière from the ballet La Captive
• Deuxième rhapsody
• Deuxième Valse Symphonique
• Encore un! allegro
• Epithalame (wedding course)
• Fantaisie
• Gavotte Monsignore
• Hommage à webers
• would inter+load Solennel
• L'Heureux Voyage
• Le Rétour outer Pays: Prière avant le départ
• Marche commémorative
• Marche Cortège
• Marche Panégyrique
• Merxem - Allegro Militaire
• Montréal - Allegro de concert
• Ouverture” Eleusines “
• patrol Albanaise
• Poème Symphonique EN forms d'Ouverture
• Polka fataiseste
• rhapsody Laudative
• rhapsody Hawaîenne
• smelling pool of broadcasting corporations III Ouverture
• Terugkeer naar het vaderland
• triumph march
• variation
• Valse symphonique No. 1
• Valse symphonique No. 2
• Vestris - Danse mimique
• Quarantenaire - Marche Solennelle

of stage works

• 1890 Le Démon dramatic Kantate after texts of Lermontow in 2 documents for Soli, choir and orchestra
• 1892 Francesca there Rimini dramatic Oratorium after Dante for Soli, choir and orchestra
• 1895 of gene de more mer (Zeevolk) lyric drama in 2 documents
• 1896 - 1900 La Captive ballet in 2 documents
• 1903 Princesse rayon de soleil (Prinses Zonneschijn) légende féerique 4 document
• 1910 Les Aventuriers (Rooversliefde) musical drama in 1 act
• 1910 - 1921 Les Deux Bossus ballet Pantomime in 1 act
• 1940 Elijah music to the tragedy of Cyriel Verschaeve
• Daphne ballet

other works

• 1889 - 1890 Six Mélodies
• 1902 Petite Suite Rustique for piano
• 1934 Le Mas d'Icare to the film of Carlo Queeckers for caper orchestras
• 1934 - to 1936 romantic werkjes
• 1940 Aria di Timpani con 6 Variazioni
• Suite NOC-do gymnastics for piano
• Six chanson Ecossaises after texts of Leconte de Lisle

books and writings

• 1913 Le Tutti orchestral
• 1923 Traité de lecture musicals
• 1923 Traité d'harmonie (3 volumes)
• 1926 Traité de musique militaire
• Solfège - Cours de la lecture musical A 9 volumes ( 9 volumes) complet
• 1955 Arthur Meulemans: Paul Gilson (1865-1942). 14 sides, 1 Portrait