Luís de Freitas Branco (1890-1955) : Parcours biographique et esthétique à travers l'oeuvre pour piano

摘要

AbstractLuís de Freitas Branco is considered a major Portuguese composer of the first half of the 20th century. Over various decades, his life and works were little known and studied; even though a renewed interest was kindled in recent years, his piano works remained largely untouched by scholars, and published biographical facts concerning him were of a much too general nature. This dissertation aims to establish as complete a biography as possible, based on a scrupulous confrontation of sources; to illustrate various aesthetic tendencies represented in the composer’s output by a comparative analysis of his piano works; to discuss these tendencies in the context of Freitas Branco’s creative and personal life.