Publication of the opening lecture by Pr Pascal Dusapin

Pascal Dusapin

Composer. Music, Paradox, Flow

" To compose is not to demonstrate. To compose is to invent impulses and flows. It's like the water in a river. To compose is to invent crossroads, distances and distances. It's like running away and always running away. But composing is long. And slow. Very slow. Very, very long and slow... It never moves forward. That's because you don't know what it's going to become. The paradoxical question is not how to finish, but how not to finish. Composing means never finishing. It would take far too much time to finish, in other words, all our time. And for all that, we'd never finish. "

Dusapin, P., Composer. Musique, Paradoxe, Flux, Paris, Collège de France/Fayard, coll. " Leçons inaugurales du Collège de France ",^no 191, 2007, 64 p.

ISBN : 978-2-213-63291-9
Price : 10,20 €
Publication : March 21, 2007

Born in 1955, composer Pascal Dusapin has rapidly established himself as one of the strongest and most original personalities in music today. He is the author of numerous works, including five operas (among them Perelà, uomo di fumo, premiered at the Opéra Bastille in 2003, and Faustus, The Last Night at the Berlin Staatsoper in 2006). He holds the Artistic Creation Chair at the Collège de France for 2006-2007.