Doda Conrad (19 February 1905 – 28 December 1997) was a Polish-born American bass operatic singer.

Career

The son of

Marya Freund Marya Freund (12 December 1876 – 21 May 1966) was a Polish-born French soprano. Career She studied violin with Pablo de Sarasate, then singing with Henri Criticos and Raymond Zur Mühlen. In 1913 she took part in the creation of Arnold Sc ...

, Conrad studied singing with Emilio de Gogorza in New York, then made his debut in Paris in 1932 at the

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and the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin. In 1936 he worked with

Nadia Boulanger Juliette Nadia Boulanger (; 16 September 188722 October 1979) was a French music teacher and conductor. She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century, and also performed occasionally as a pianist and organist. From a ...

. He performed French songs, and lieder by Chopin and

Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal wor ...

. He commissioned ''mouvement du cœur'' on poems by

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on music composed by

Henri Sauguet Henri-Pierre Sauguet-Poupard (18 May 1901 – 22 June 1989) was a French composer. Born in Bordeaux, he adopted his mother's maiden name as part of his professional pseudonym. His output includes operas, ballets, four symphonies (1945, 1949 ...

Jean Françaix Jean René Désiré Françaix (; 23 May 1912, in Le Mans – 25 September 1997, in Paris) was a French neoclassical composer, pianist, and orchestrator, known for his prolific output and vibrant style. Life Françaix's natural gifts were encour ...

, Francis Poulenc,

Darius Milhaud Darius Milhaud (; 4 September 1892 – 22 June 1974) was a French composer, conductor, and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as ''The Group of Six''—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions ...

, and ''visions infernales'' written by Henri Sauguet. In 1965 he no longer appeared on stage and was involved in music promotion. He founded he Erémurus company, the ''Saison musicale'' of the Abbaye de Royaumont and directed the ''journées musicales'' of

Langeais Langeais () is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France. On 1 January 2017, the former commune of Les Essards was merged into Langeais.

. When he was young, he destined himself to painting on the advice of Picasso and later became a close friend of Stravinsky and

Saint-John Perse Alexis Leger (; 31 May 1887 – 20 September 1975), better known by his pseudonym Saint-John Perse (; also Saint-Leger Leger), was a French poet-diplomat, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative ...

Sources

External links

''Mort du chanteur Doda Conrad''
on '' Libération'' (30 December 1997)
Doda Conrad
on Encyclopédie Larousse
" Doda " Conrad, ''un Blésois à la fois célèbre et méconnu''
on '' La Nouvelle République'' (5 May 2012)
Biography
on Bach-cantatas.com
Doda Conrad, basse - interview French, 17/12/1997. part 1
on YouTube {{DEFAULTSORT:Conrad, Doda 1905 births People from the Province of Silesia 1997 deaths American operatic basses American people of Polish-Jewish descent 20th-century American male opera singers Polish emigrants to the United States