Qui était Maurice Bouchor ?
Homme de lettres, Maurice Bouchor (1855 - 1929) était lié avec une pléiade d’artistes, figures littéraires, comédiens, metteurs en scène, musiciens, compositeurs, gens du monde, personnalités du milieu de l'éducation, du mouvement folklorique, et bien d'autres. Wagnériste affirmé, aujourd’hui, Bouchor est reconnu comme l’auteur de plusieurs œuvres pour théâtre de marionnette, et du texte du Poème de l'amour et de la mer, une des œuvres les plus achevées d'Ernest Chausson, ainsi que de poèmes mis en musique par Claude Debussy, Mel Bonis ou Paul Vidal. Profondément personnelles, ses œuvres littéraires naissent de ses expériences de vie fort variées : son grand périple en Inde, son engagement farouche en faveur de Dreyfus, son dévouement aux écoles populaires, ses publications de chansons folkloriques. À travers ses œuvres artistiques, ses textes critiques et sa correspondance, Maurice Bouchor offre un regard privilégié non seulement sur sa personnalité, ses points de vue et ses opinions, mais aussi sur l’époque qui leur a permis de s’épanouir.
Projets antérieurs -
Projets antérieurs -
Prestation d’atelier, Le songe de Khèyam (2023)
Projet de re-création, extraits de La Tempête (2017)
Who was Maurice Bouchor?
In his lifetime, Maurice Bouchor (1855 - 1929) maintained a dizzying array of connections to a host of artists, literary persons, actors, directors, musicians, composers, and social figures, as well as individuals from the educational milieu, the folklore movement, and many others. A confirmed Wagnerite, Bouchor is perhaps best known among musicologists as the playwright behind several important works for puppet theatre with music, and as the poet behind Ernest Chausson’s Poème de l’amour et de la mer, and as the person who penned the words for dozens of other art songs by composers such as Claude Debussy, Mel Bonis, and Paul Vidal. His deeply personal literary works are a product of his highly varied life experiences—his travel to India, valiant Dreyfusard stance, and extensive work with ‘popular’ schools and universities. Maurice Bouchor shared his views and opinions in a variety of journals and through his private correspondence, opening a diverse range of research avenues into this fascinating individual and the belle époque in which he lived.
International, Interdisciplinary, and Bilingual
Maurice Bouchor : écrits, musiques, et spectacles brings together performers, artists, archivists, and researchers from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Spain, and Switzerland. The event includes conference papers, an opportunity to view primary sources and performance materials housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and a round-table on the material nature and staging challenges for Bouchor’s puppet plays, plus a recital by Canadian soprano Kevisha Williams and French pianist who will be working together for the first time to bring Bouchor’s texts to life through their performance of art songs that set his poetry to music, including art songs by Mélanie Bonis (1858-1937).