André Caplet 安德烈·卡普莱
安德烈·卡普莱
Caplet / 卡普莱地区法国
类型个人
职业作曲
艺人资料
安德烈·卡普莱（1878年11月23日－1925年4月22日），法国作曲家。出生于从勒阿弗尔到翁弗勒尔的一艘船上，是一名音乐神童。1901年他获得罗马大奖，名列拉威尔之前。后来他成为德彪西的好友和助手，为德彪西的许多乐曲做了配器工作（如《塞巴斯蒂安的殉难》，《儿童园地》等）。1910年到波士顿歌剧院任职，一战爆发后参军入伍，在战斗中受到毒气攻击，留下后遗症，1925年死于胸膜炎。卡普莱的作品是典型的印象主义风格，受德彪西影响很大，他最出色的作品是艺术歌曲。
André Caplet (23 November 1878 – 22 April 1925) was a French composer andconductor now known primarily through his orchestrations of works by Claude Debussy.
He exhibited an unusual talent and originality during his musical education, and won the Prix de Rome in 1901 ahead of Maurice Ravel. He became a close friend of Claude Debussy, sometimes serving as translator, and he orchestrated part of Debussy's Le Martyre de saint Sébastien.[1][2] He also collaborated with Debussy in the orchestration of La boîte à joujoux. In 1911, Caplet prepared an orchestration of Debussy'sChildren's Corner, which, along with his orchestration of Clair de lune from the Suite bergamasque is probably the most widely performed and recorded example of his work.
Caplet was a composer in his own right, whose works have been overlooked for the most part in the modern repertoire. Especially interesting is his instrumental use of voices, as in his Septuor à cordes vocales et instrumentales from 1909 and in the oratorio-like Le Miroir de Jésus from 1923, which features "choeur de femmes" in an accompanying role Caplet termed "voix d'accompagnement". He also wrote two works based on the short story The Mask of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe: Conte fantastique for harp and string quartet, and an orchestral symphonic study Le Masque de la mort rouge.
Caplet served as conductor of the Boston Opera from 1910 to 1914.
While serving in the military during the First World War, he was gassed, which resulted in the pleurisythat eventually killed him. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine), a suburb of Paris, at the age of 46. The next year the sculptor Jacques Zwobada, a native of Neuilly, was commissioned to create a monument to Caplet. This was one of Zwobada's earliest works after he graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts.
