Pierre Mercure is Canadian composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

, TV producer, bassoonist, administrator. Premier prix Harmony, Counterpoint, Deuxième prix bassoon (Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal) 1949. His main composition teacher was Claude Champagne

Claude Champagne

Claude Champagne was a Canadian composer.Born in Montreal, Quebec, he studied violin with Albert Chamberland, organ with Orpha-F. Deveaux, and piano with Romain-Octave Pelletier I and Alexis Contant at the Conservatoire national de musique. In 1921 he went straight to Paris to study music...

. He also studied composition briefly with Nadia Boulanger

Nadia Boulanger

Nadia Boulanger was a French composer, conductor and teacher who taught many composers and performers of the 20th century.From a musical family, she achieved early honours as a student at the Paris Conservatoire, but believing that her talent as a composer was inferior to that of her younger...

 in Paris and Luigi Dallapiccola

Luigi Dallapiccola

Luigi Dallapiccola was an Italian composer known for his lyrical twelve-tone compositions.-Biography:Dallapiccola was born at Pisino d'Istria , to Italian parents....

 at Tanglewood

Tanglewood

Tanglewood is an estate and music venue in Lenox and Stockbridge, Massachusetts. It is the home of the annual summer Tanglewood Music Festival and the Tanglewood Jazz Festival, and has been the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer home since 1937. It was the venue of the Berkshire Festival.- History...

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Pierre Mercure began his compositional career in the world of ballet, composing four ballets in a short period in 1948 and 1950, going on to compose orchestral, chamber and electronic music as well. He sought to make the Canadian new music community catch up with the developments of western classical music in Europe and the United States, taking many trips to France in order to absorb its contemporary music scene.

Works

Ballet

• Dualité (1948)
• La Femme archaïque (1949)
• Lucrèce Borgia (1949)
• Emprise (1950)
• Improvisation (1961)
• Incandescence (1961)
• Structures métalliques I and II (1961)
• Tétrachromie (1963)
• Manipulations (1964)
• Surimpressions (1964)

Film

• La Forme des choses (1965)
• Élément 3 (1965)

Orchestral

• Kaléidoscope (1948)
• Ils ont détruit la ville (1950)
• Cantate pour une joie (1955)
• Divertissement (1957)
• Triptyque (1959)
• Lignes et points (1964)

Chamber

• Pantomime (1948)
• H2O per Severino (1965)

Electronic

• Jeu de hockey (1961)
• Répercussions (1961)
• Structures métalliques III (1962)
• Psaume pour abri (1963)

External links

• Pierre Mercure at The Canadian Encyclopedia
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• Pierre Mercure at The Canadian Music Centre