Aymé Kunc (20 January 1877 – 13 February 1958) was a French composer and administrator.

Career

Born in

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, Kunc won second prize alongside

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 ...

in the

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competition of 1902. Until 1907 he conducted the orchestra of the Théâtre Apollo in Paris. In 1914 he became the director of the Toulouse Conservatory, in which capacity he served for thirty years until 1944. He died in Toulouse aged 81. Beginning in 1996, the Association Aymé Kunc has promoted the composer's music, and has recorded a number of his works, including the ''Messe de Sainte-Cécile''.

Selected works

Music for the stage

* ''Les Esclaves'', opera (1911) * ''Les Armes de Vulcain'', ballet * ''Les Dieux morts'' , ballet * ''Pastorale antique'', ballet

Orchestral works

* ''Ouverture de fête'' (1904-1907) * ''Suite dramatique'' (1904-1907) * ''Feuillets d'album'' * ''Quatre Esquisses méditerranéennes'' (1949) * ''Cloches d'Automne'' * ''Prelude and final'' * ''Fantaisie'', for piano and orchestra (1904–07) * ''Pensée musicale'', for harp and orchestra (1916) * ''Quatre Pièces'', for flute and orchestra * ''Pastorales'', for violin and orchestra (1919) * ''Légende'', for viola and orchestra (1931) * ''Poème'', for cello and orchestra (1943) * ''Nocturne'', for horn and orchestra

Chamber music

* Sonata for Violin and Piano * ''Fantaisie en forme de danse'', for violin and piano * ''Pastorale'', for violin and piano * ''Suite symphonique'', for two cellos and piano * Suite, for flute, cello and piano * Trio, for violin, cello and piano * Piano Quartet * String Quartet No. 1 (1946) * String Quartet No. 2 (1948) * ''Pièces brèves'', for string quartet * Petite Suite, for wind quintet * Wind Quintet (1954) * ''Scherzetto'', for wind quintet * ''Asturiana'', for wind quintet

Keyboard works

Piano music * ''Scherzetto'' * ''Simples chansons'' Organ music * ''Scherzetto'' * ''Fantaisie symphonique''

Vocal music

Cantatas * ''Cantate pour le couronnement de Dante'' (1921) * ''Hymne des ailes'' Choral works (à cappella or with piano or small ensemble) * ''Le Bohémien'' (with violin) * ''Chanson pastorale'' (with piano) * ''Deux Chants folkloriques'' * ''Chants populaires languedociens'' * ''Je ne veux plus chanter'' * ''Noël de la libération'' * ''Le Plus doux chant'' Motets and sacred works * Ave Maria I * Ave Maria II * Ave Maria III * Ave verum I * Ave verum II * ''Messe de Sainte Cécile'' (1923) * Psalm CXLVII Songs with piano accompaniment * ''Apaisement'' * ''Je ne sais pas de fleur'' * ''Printemps'' * ''Soleil d'automne'' * ''Le Voyage''

References

External links

Official site
1877 births 1958 deaths 20th-century classical composers French classical composers French male composers Musicians from Toulouse Prix de Rome for composition {{France-composer-stub