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Roland-Manuel
Alexis Roland-Manuel (22 March 18911 November 1966) was a French people, French composer and critic, remembered mainly for his criticism. Biography He was born Roland Alexis Manuel Lévy in Paris, to a family of Belgians, Belgian and Jewish origins. He studied composition under Vincent d'Indy and Albert Roussel. As a young man he befriended composer Erik Satie, who helped him to make numerous influential connections. In 1911, Satie introduced Roland-Manuel to Maurice Ravel, whose pupil, friend and biographer he soon became. In 1947, he was appointed Professor of Aesthetics at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he remained until his retirement in 1961, making many contributions to musical theory and criticism, even assisting Igor Stravinsky by ghost-writing the theoretical work "The Poetics of Music". In addition to theoretical works, he wrote and composed various works for stage, especially comic operas, and screen, developing a partnership with director Jean Grémillon, for five ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Ravel
Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer. Born to a music-loving family, Ravel attended France's premier music college, the Paris Conservatoire; he was not well regarded by its conservative establishment, whose biased treatment of him caused a scandal. After leaving the conservatoire, Ravel found his own way as a composer, developing a style of great clarity and incorporating elements of modernism, baroque, neoclassicism and, in his later works, jazz. He liked to experiment with musical form, as in his best-known work, ''Boléro'' (1928), in which repetition takes the place of development. Renowned for his abilities in orchestration, Ravel made some orchestral arrangements of other compose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (6 April 1971) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor, later of French (from 1934) and American (from 1945) citizenship. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential 20th-century classical music, composers of the 20th century and a pivotal figure in modernism (music), modernist music. Stravinsky's compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity. He first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Sergei Diaghilev and first performed in Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: ''The Firebird'' (1910), ''Petrushka (ballet), Petrushka'' (1911), and ''The Rite of Spring'' (1913). The last transformed the way in which subsequent composers thought about rhythmic structure and was largely responsible for Stravinsky's enduring reputation as a revolutionary who pushed the boundaries of musical design. His "Russian phase", which continued with works such as ''Renard (Stravinsky), Renar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Devil In Love (novel)
''The Devil in Love'' (french: Le Diable amoureux, 1772) is an occult romance by Jacques Cazotte which tells of a demon, or devil, who falls in love with a young Spanish nobleman named Don Alvaro, an amateur human dabbler, and attempts, in the guise of a young woman, to win his affections. French critic P.G. Castex has described ''The Devil In Love'' as "the very initiator of the modern fantasy story". Canadian critic Carlo Testa has described ''The Devil In Love'' (in review of Stephen Sartarelli's 1993 translation) as a "terminus a quo" in the history of the demonic subgenre". The ''Le Diable amoureux'' started a literary style known as ''fantastique'', where surreal events intrude on reality and the reader is left guessing whether the events actually occurred or were merely the product of the character's imagination. Plot Don Alvaro, a young but wise man, invokes Satan. Upon seeing the young Alvaro, Satan falls in love with him and assumes the appearance of a young woman, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'éventail De Jeanne
''L'éventail de Jeanne'' (''Jean's Fan'') is a children's ballet choreographed in 1927 by Alice Bourgat and Yvonne Franck. The music is a collaborative work by ten French composers, each of whom contributed a stylised dance in classic form: # Maurice Ravel (''Fanfare'') # Pierre-Octave Ferroud (''Marche'') # Jacques Ibert (''Valse'') # Alexis Roland-Manuel (''Canarie'') # Marcel Delannoy (''Bourrée'') # Albert Roussel (''Sarabande'') # Darius Milhaud (''Polka'') # Francis Poulenc (''Pastourelle'') # Georges Auric (''Rondeau'') # Florent Schmitt (Finale: ''Kermesse-Valse'') "Jeanne" refers to a Parisian hostess and patroness of the arts, Jeanne Dubost, who ran a children’s ballet school. In the spring of 1927 she presented ten of her composer friends with leaves from her fan, asking each of them to write a little dance for her pupils. The children were dressed in fairytale costumes and the décor was enlivened by a set designed with mirrors. It was produced in private ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pastorale D'été (Honegger)
''Pastorale d’été'', H. 31 (''Summer Pastoral''), is a short symphonic poem for chamber orchestra by Arthur Honegger. It was inspired by Honegger's vacation in the Swiss alps above Bern in 1920 and lasts seven or eight minutes. ''Pastorale d'été'' was written in August 1920 at Wengen in Switzerland. It was Honegger's first orchestral work of any real consequence before he wrote his massive ''Horace victorieux'', which he wrote in the winter of 1920-21. The score of ''Pastorale d'été'' was inscribed with an epigraph by Arthur Rimbaud: ''J'ai embrassé l'aube d'été'' (I have embraced the summer dawn). The scoring is for strings, single woodwinds, and horn. The work is atmospheric, placid and restrained, and has been described as "a latter-day ''Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune'' (''Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun'' by Claude Debussy). It seems to be a musical impression of a peaceful early morning in the Swiss alps. It opens with a languorous soaring theme on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stormy Waters (1941 Film)
''Remorques'' (English title: ''Stormy Waters'') is a 1941 French drama film directed by Jean Grémillon. The screenplay was written by Jacques Prévert (scenario and dialogue) and André Cayatte (adaptation), based on the novel by Roger Vercel. The film stars Jean Gabin, Madeleine Renaud and Michèle Morgan. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris and on location around Finistère in Brittany including at Brest. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alexandre Trauner. It was distributed in France by the Paris subsidiary of the German Tobis Film company. After the Second World War it was given an American release by MGM. Plot A tugboat captain indulges a love affair with a married woman, despite having a seriously ill wife in a small ocean front town. Cast * Jean Gabin as Captain André Laurent * Madeleine Renaud as Yvonne Laurent * Michèle Morgan as Catherine * Charles Blavette as Gabriel Tanguy * Jean Marchat as Marc, captain of the 'Mirva' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summer Light (film)
''Summer Light'' (French: ''Lumière d'été'') is a 1943 French drama film directed by Jean Grémillon and starring Madeleine Renaud, Pierre Brasseur and Madeleine Robinson.Crisp p.65 It was shot at the Victorine Studios in Nice and location shooting, on location at Soursac on the Dordogne (river), Dordogne. The film's sets were designed by the art director André Barsacq. Cast * Madeleine Renaud as Cricri * Pierre Brasseur as Roland * Madeleine Robinson as Michèle * Paul Bernard (actor), Paul Bernard as Patrice Le Verdier * Georges Marchal as Julien * Léonce Corne as Tonton * Charles Blavette as Vincent * Jane Marken as Louise Martinet * Henri Pons as Amédée * Gérard Lecomte as Dany * Marcel Lévesque as Monsieur Louis * Raymond Aimos as Ernest References Bibliography * Crisp, Colin. ''French Cinema—A Critical Filmography: Volume 2, 1940–1958''. Indiana University Press, 2015. External links * Films directed by Jean Grémillon 1943 drama films Frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Brighton Twins
''The Brighton Twins'' (French: ''Les jumeaux de Brighton'') is a 1936 French comedy film directed by Claude Heymann and starring Raimu, Michel Simon and Suzy Prim.Crisp p.407 It is based on the 1908 play of the same title by Tristan Bernard. Twins are separated at birth in 1890, with one being raised in the United States and the other in France. More than forty years later they encounter each other for the first time. Cast * Raimu as Alfred Beaugérard et les deux fils Achille * Michel Simon as Labrosse * Suzy Prim as Clémentine Beaugérard * Charlotte Lysès as Madame Tupin - La belle-mère * Pierre Finaly as L'avocat * Marcel Maupi as Le garde du corps * Jacques Bousquet as L'oncle d'Amérique * Georges Paulais as Le docteur Paulard * Mila Parély as Antoinette - La bonne de Nancy * Pierre Piérade as Le président du tribunal * Mansuelle as L'huissier * Lucienne Masset as La nourrice * Madeleine Milhaud as Madame Achille Beaugérard * Paul Vels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Strange Monsieur Victor
''The Strange Monsieur Victor'' (French: ''L'Étrange Monsieur Victor'') is a 1938 French-German drama film directed by Jean Grémillon and starring Raimu, Pierre Blanchar and Madeleine Renaud. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Hunte and Willy Schiller. The film was made by the German major studio Universum Film AG in collaboration with its French subsidiary. It was the thirteenth most popular film at the French box office in 1938.Driskell p.207 Synopsis Victor Agardanne, a respectable businessman in Toulon, secretly works as a fence receiving stolen goods. When he is threatened with blackmail over his clandestine activities, he murders the man. He allows an innocent man to be arrested for the crime and be sent to a South American penal colony. When the wronged man escapes from prison, he heads back to Toulon to seek revenge against whoever really committed the murder. Cast * Raimu as Victor Agardanne * Pierre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French People
The French people (french: Français) are an ethnic group and nation primarily located in Western Europe that share a common French culture, history, and language, identified with the country of France. The French people, especially the native speakers of langues d'oïl from northern and central France, are primarily the descendants of Gauls (including the Belgae) and Romans (or Gallo-Romans, western European Celtic and Italic peoples), as well as Germanic peoples such as the Franks, the Visigoths, the Suebi and the Burgundians who settled in Gaul from east of the Rhine after the fall of the Roman Empire, as well as various later waves of lower-level irregular migration that have continued to the present day. The Norse also settled in Normandy in the 10th century and contributed significantly to the ancestry of the Normans. Furthermore, regional ethnic minorities also exist within France that have distinct lineages, languages and cultures such as Bretons in Brittany ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dream (1931 Film)
''The Dream'' (French: ''Le rêve'') is a 1931 French drama film directed by Jacques de Baroncelli and starring Simone Genevois, Jaque Catelain and Jean Joffre.Slavin p.220 It is based on the 1888 novel of the same title by Emile Zola. It was shot at Pathé's Joinville Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Gys. Cast * Simone Genevois as Angélique * Jaque Catelain as Félicien * Charles Le Bargy as Monsieur de Hautecoeur * Jean Joffre as L'abbé Cornille * Germaine Dermoz as Hubertine * Gilberte Savary as Angélique enfant * Paul Amiot Paul Amiot (29 March 1886 – 26 January 1979) was a French film actor. His career spanned some 63 years and he appeared in nearly 100 films between 1910 and 1973. In 1920 he appeared in Robert Péguy's ''Être aimé pour soi-même''. He was n ... as Hubert * Raymond Galle as Le médecin References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Woman Who Dared (1944 Film)
''The Woman Who Dared'' (French title: ''Le Ciel est à vous'') ( en, The Sky is Yours) is a 1944 French drama film directed by Jean Grémillon and starring Madeleine Renaud and Charles Vanel. In April 2019, a restored version of the film was selected to be shown in the Cannes Classics section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. Plot The mechanic Pierre Gauthier runs his own garage until he gets disappropriated because his grounds are required for a new airport. Together with his wife Thérèse, their two children and his moody mother-in-law he has to move. Due to his friendly nature he renders all kinds of services to everybody who asks him for a favour. When he helps a businessman whose car has broken down in the middle of the night, he and his wife are offered a new job, managing an auto dealership and service business in another town. Thérèse takes the new job on a trial basis, leaving Pierre to care for their children. During her absence, Pierre, an ex WWI flyer, returns to hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
