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Sébastien Letocart - composer/organ player
contact: tracotel_seba@hotmail.com
My Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Tracotel
Born in Verviers the 26th of January 1975, a graduate from the Royal Conservatory of Liège in Belgium (1st prize organ, 1st prize harmony, 1st prize history of music, 1st prize musical analysis) ; Sébastien Letocart is a self-taught composer, who has built his musical equally by studying ancient music (i.e. Josquin Desprez, William Byrd, Tomas Luis Vitoria, Roland de Lassus, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Claudio Monteverdi, Dietrich Buxtehude, Johann Sebastian Bach), practicing it (organ, harpsichord and singing) as well as analysing the great scores of the Classical Symphony (Haydn, Mozart), the Romantic (Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Dvořák, Bruckner), the Post-romantic (Debussy, Roussel, R.Strauss, Mahler, Sibelius, Nielsen) and the symphonic repertoire of the first half of the 20th century (Bartók, Hindemith, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Bax, Vaughan Williams, Holst, Walton, Honegger, Martinu, Varèse). He is also highly interrested in the music of the last sixty years, his preferences are going from György Ligeti, Iannis Xenakis or Esa-Pekka Salonen to Einar Englund, Aulis Sallinen, Emil Tabakov, Kalevi Aho, Vagn Holmboe, John Adams, Sir Malcolm Arnold or Sir Andrzej Panufnik. He is also greatly attracted by chamber music, especially by the refined writing that the string quartet demands and by Béla Bartók's six String Quartets which are the nec plus ultra of the genre.
In 2007 -2008 Sébastien Letocart realized a new completion of the Finale to Anton Bruckner's Ninth Symphony . It was based on a meticulous study of the facsimile and a critical assessment of various realizations proposed by other protagonists who had worked on this unfinished Finale. It implies the reconstruction of missing sections in the exposition, development, and recapitulation, as well as the composition of a conclusion (coda) that closely adheres to Bruckner's orchestral and contrapuntal combinatory techniques. The first recording of this completion was made in October 2008 with the MAV Symphonic Orchestra, Budapest under the conducting of Nicolas Couton
Here is a short essay and analysis of Anton Bruckner's 5th Symphony in B flat major
Sébastien Letocart also realized orchestrations of both books of Images for piano of Claude Debussy + L'Isle Joyeuse, using more or less the same orchestra as the one used for "La Mer".
Works:
- Sinfonia n°1 for string orchestra (2001) / (Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra - Nicolas Couton, direction - 12/10/2009)
- Sinfonia n°2 for string orchestra (2020)
- Humoresque for large orchestra (2000)
- Scherzo fugato for large orchestra (2002/2003, rev. 2005)
- "Swinging Toccata Overture" for large orchestra (2006 - rev 2011)
- A symphony "Crucem Sanctam" (project)
- A Prelude, fuge and Passacaille for orchestra (project)
- Ricercar for solo violin and orchestra (2004)
- Fantasia for solo piano (2018)
- 5/4 fugue for piano (2015)
- String quartet (2006)
- Prelude and Fugue in G for organ (2001)
- Metamorphoses for symphonic organ (2002, rev. 2005 and 2011)
- Toccata and fugue in g minor for organ (2019)
- Fugue in d minor in french baroque style (2018)
- Sonate for flute and harpsichord (2017)
- Two "Missa brevis". Missa brevis 1 (1998) - Missa brevis 2 (2014)
- Two motets (2014)
- Mass in D for a large a capella choir (2002-rev.2005 / 2013-2014)
- Te Deum - Anton Bruckner memoriam - for 4 soloists, choir and orchestra (project)