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Jean Cras, Polymath of Music and Letters (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Jean Cras, Polymath of Music and Letters (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Jean Cras (1879-1932) was a remarkable man by anyone's measure.
Twice a decorated hero of the Great War, this Rear-Admiral of the
French navy, scientist, inventor and moral philosopher, was also a
highly esteemed composer during his lifetime, enjoying the same
stature and celebrity as Faure, Debussy and Ravel. Since his death,
however, both Cras and his music have been almost completely
overlooked. In this, the first critical biography of Cras,
Paul-Andre Bempechat situates Henri Duparc's protege as a missing
link between the French post-Romantic generation of composers and
the Impressionists. The book explores, both historically and
analytically, the methodology by which Cras evolved his eclectic
brand of Impressionism, striking the delicate balance between
Celtic folk idioms and exoticisms inspired by his travels. Cras'
creative legacy extends beyond the world of music to the world of
science. His five patented inventions include the navigational
gyrocompass, which bears his name, still in use to this day by the
French navy, coast guard and boating afficionados. Bempechat draws
special attention to the humanist Jean Cras and his distinguished
military career - he is credited with saving the Serbian army from
extinction - drawing on primary source material such as family
correspondence and wartime diaries to reaffirm this composer as a
true Renaissance man of the twentieth century.
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