Émile Pierre Ratez (also ''René Emile Ratez''; 5 November 1851– 19 May 1934) was a French

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Life

Ratez was born in

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and became a pupil of Pierre De Mol at the music school thereSee Grandemusica.net (http://grandemusica.net/musical-biographies-r-1/ratez-emile-pierre ), Hubbard (The American History and Encyclopedia of Music: Musical biographies, p. 194) and ''Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians'' 3rd Edition (1919) p. 202 for identification of "Demol" in that article as either Pierre De Mol or his nephew François-Marie and Baker's p. 742 for further biography of Ratez. and later a pupil of Bazin and of

Jules Massenet Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet (; 12 May 1842 – 13 August 1912) was a French composer of the Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty. The two most frequently staged are '' Manon'' (1884) and ''Werther' ...

at the

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in the 1870s. In 1891, he became the director of the

Lille Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Pref ...

branch of the

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. Ratez died in

on 19 May 1934.

Music

His compositions include some chamber music: at least three

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, at least two

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, for example), a suite for violin and piano, two operas ''Lydéric'' (premiered 1895, Lille) and ''Paula'' (premiered 1904, Besançon) and many songs and other choral and piano works (&c...) His six ''Pièces charactéristiques'' have been republished by Billaudot.

Discography

* 2016: Acte Préalable AP 0358 – Émile Pierre Ratez - Exhibition 1 * 2016: Acte Préalable AP 0366 – Émile Pierre Ratez - Exhibition 2

References

External links

* * 1851 births 1934 deaths 19th-century classical composers 19th-century French male musicians 20th-century classical composers 20th-century French male musicians Conservatoire de Paris alumni French ballet composers French classical violists French male classical composers French Romantic composers Musicians from Besançon 20th-century violists {{France-classical-musician-stub