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Mouquet Jules
Andersen, Joachim
Boehm, Theobald
Borne, François
Caplet, André
Chaminade, Cécile
Chopin, Frédéric
Danzi, Franz Ignaz
Demersseman, Jules-Auguste Edouard
Donjon, Johannes
Doppler, Albert Franz
Fauré, Gabriel
Frühling, Carl
Ganne, Louis
Godard, Benjamin
Hüe, Georges Adolphe
Kuhlau, Friedrich
Mercadante, Saverio
Molique, Wilhelm Bernhard
Mouquet, Jules
Périlhou, Albert
Reinecke, Carl Heinrich Carsten
Saint-Saëns, Camille
Schubert, Franz
Schumann, Robert
Strauss, Richard
Taffanel, Claude Paul
Tulou, Jean-Louis
Wagner, Siegfried
Widor, Charles Marie Jean Albert
La flûte de Pan for flute and piano in F Major (Op 15)
La flûte de Pan for flute and piano in F Major (Op 15)
J. Mouquet: La flûte de Pan (Pan's flute) for flute and piano (Op 15) was written in 1904 and dedicated to Léopold Lafleurance, notable French flutist. The Pan is the god of wild and shepherds in Greek mythology who plays Pan's flute, the instrument named after the Syrinx, the water nymph pursued by Pan. Trying to escape amorous advances, Syrinx takes refuge in river where river nymphs turn her into hollow water reeds. Having lost his desired nymph, Pan decides to cut the reeds and make pan pipes to express his sadness.
Nine years later Claude Debussy wrote a solo piece for flute La flûte de Pan (in 1913) which shortly after was renamed to Syrinx to avoid the confusion.
Jeonghwa Hur (piano), 2012, live performance at Seoul Arts Center, Korea
1. Pan et les bergers
Jeonghwa Hur (piano), 2012, live performance at Seoul Arts Center, Korea
2. Pan et les oiseaux
Jeonghwa Hur (piano), 2012, live performance at Seoul Arts Center, Korea
3. Pan et les nymphes
Chika Nishiwaki (piano), 2015, live at Yotsuya-kumin Hall, Tokyo
1. Pan et les bergers
Chika Nishiwaki (piano), 2015, live at Yotsuya-kumin Hall, Tokyo
2. Pan et les oiseaux
Chika Nishiwaki (piano), 2015, live at Yotsuya-kumin Hall, Tokyo
3. Pan et les nymphes
Mouquet Jules
Jules Mouquet (1867-1946) was a French composer of late Romantic era with influence of Impressionism. Born in Paris, he studied composition and harmony at the Paris Conservatoire. After winning three prestigious prizes for his compositions, he was appointed professor of harmony at the Paris Conservatoire in 1913 where he wrote a Cours complémentaire d'harmonie (Complementary course in harmony).
Even though Mouquet won several prestigious composition prizes (Prix de Rome; Prix Trémont etc.), The La flûte de Pan for flute and piano and its version for flute and orchestra is the most known composition of Mouquet.