Pascal-Henri Poiget
Passionate about music, literature and cinema, he devotes himself to writing alongside his professional life, where he has co-written three management books.
At Éditions AlterPublishing, he published The Game of Marienbad (Novel 2012), Debussy, Musician of Poets (Essay 2013), Chateaubriand, Fervent of Women (Essay 2013), A Manipulator's Love (Novel 2016), The Choice to Wait (Songs 2018), The Surprise of the Gifted (Novel 2019), The Last on the List (Thriller 2023), Joan of Arc's Dream (Multimedia Theater 2024), The Detours of Competitions (News and Pantouns 2024) and a modernized version of The Prophecies of Nostradamus (French version 2015; English version 2020).
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Pascal-Henri Poiget - Debussy musician of poets
(Fourth edition)
"Musicians who don't understand verse should not set music."
These words, written by Claude Debussy, show a strong attachment to the formal text and the French language. Through his significant production of melodies and vocal music, his work is fundamentally oriented towards literature and poetry.
Debussy, an established composer, went so far as to write his own poems before setting them to music, after having preferred to be published by a literature publisher rather than a music publisher!
This journey into musical aesthetics and conception in the work of the man his contemporaries nicknamed Claude de France is completed by the complete texts of the melodies from 1876 to 1913.