Jean Balissat
Cantique des créatures

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de St. François d’Assise

for soprano voice and flute

Level: intermediate
Duration: 4'
Genre: contemporary
Series: Swiss Composers Series
Composed: 1972

Reference: V23
CHF17.00

Details

Published: 2004
Publisher: Editions Bim

Composer

Jean Balissat (1936-2007)

Jean Balissat was born in 1936 in Lausanne (Switzerland), and was drawn straight away to composing and conducting. He studied harmony and counterpoint in Lausanne, before taking composition, orches... Read more

About Cantique des créatures

Unadorned, unaffected and therefore deeply moving

Unadorned, unaffected and therefore deeply moving, the Cantique des créatures de Saint François d’Assise (Song of the Creatures of St Francis of Assisi) called for a musical approach which observed its Franciscan spirit of extreme asceticism.

While the voice intones the prayer of St Francis, maintaining a sense of detachment at all times, the ornamentations of the flute conjure up, in turn, the sun, moon, wind, the natural elements, death...

Jean Balissat Cantique des créatures