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Examination of organist Marcel Dupré’s collected concert programs reveals that, of 137 he performed during the German occupation, 14 bear signs of funding by the German Embassy or the military government’s Propaganda Department. Dupré, though, would have participated in good conscience out of personal pride in France’s musical past. Post-Liberation punishments of French musicians who “collaborated with the enemy” were applied so inconsistently as to explain why he thereafter suppressed the extent and nature of his Occupation-period concertizing. This fuller picture of his activities potentially sheds light on his Second World War–period compositions, particularly Évocation, op. 37.
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Un examen des programmes de concert de l’organiste Marcel Dupré révèle que sur 137 concerts donnés pendant l’occupation allemande, 14 semblent avoir été financés par l’ambassade allemande ou par le département de la propagande du gouvernement militaire. Pourtant, Dupré aurait participé aussi à l’expression d’une bonne conscience nationale à travers sa fierté personnelle pour le passé musical français. Les condamnations des musiciens « ayant collaboré avec l’ennemi » pendant la période post-libération n’ayant pas été effectuées systématiquement, Dupré semble avoir masqué l’étendue et la nature de ses activités de concert pendant l’occupation. Ce portait plus complet de ses activités permet de renouveler notre compréhension de ses compositions pendant la Deuxième uerre mondiale, en particulier sa pièce Évocation, op.37.
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Biographical note
Lynn Cavanagh holds a PhD in music theory from the University of British Columbia and teaches theory and analysis at the University of Regina. Her research, which centres on the life and music of Marcel Dupré student Jeanne Demessieux (1921–68), has been published in The Diapason; Context: Journal of Music Research (Australia); and the Bulletin of the Association Maurice & Marie-Madeleine Duruflé (Paris). She is preparing a translation and critical edition of the complete diaries of Demessieux.
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