Rodolphe Mathieu (1890-1962)

The complete writings of Rodolphe Mathieu comprise two notebooks of private reflections, an unfinished version of an educational guide designed to identify musical potential in children, three articles published in 1918–19, and a volume entitled Parlons… musique (Let’s Talk Music, 1932) which compiles essays published in various newspapers between 1928 and 1932 plus a number of unpublished chapters.

An original mind, freethinking and self-taught, the Québécois composer Rodolphe Mathieu cuts an enigmatic figure on the interwar musical scene. A precursor of musical modernity, he tried through self-reflection and scientific reading to understand not only the process of musical creation but also the universe in which we live, starting from the origins of life, astronomy, matter, and human behaviour. Refusing to adhere to the dictates of the Catholicism of the time and an open atheist, he sought to develop his own ideas and find personal answers to the great questions of life.

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firstnameRodolphe
lastnameMathieu
birth year1890
death year1962
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