Félix Alphonse Raugel (27 November 1881 – 30 December 1975) was a French musician, conductor and
musicologist.
After studying at the conservatory of Lille where he obtained the first prize for
viola, he continued in Paris where he worked in
harmony
In music, harmony is the process by which individual sounds are joined together or composed into whole units or compositions. Often, the term harmony refers to simultaneously occurring frequencies, pitches ( tones, notes), or chords. However ...
,
pipe organ
The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air (called ''wind'') through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard. Because each pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ''ranks ...
(with
Abel Decaux
Abel-Marie Alexis Decaux (11 February 1869 – 19 March 1943) was a French organist, composer, and pedagogue, best known for his piano suite ''Clairs de lune'', some of the earliest pieces of dodecaphonic, yet impressionist music.
A student of ...
),
counterpoint
In music, counterpoint is the relationship between two or more musical lines (or voices) which are harmonically interdependent yet independent in rhythm and melodic contour. It has been most commonly identified in the European classical tradi ...
(with
Albert Roussel
Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel (; 5 April 1869 – 23 August 1937) was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period. His ...
) and
musical composition
Musical composition can refer to an original piece or work of music, either vocal or instrumental, the structure of a musical piece or to the process of creating or writing a new piece of music. People who create new compositions are called ...
(with
Vincent d'Indy).
He became conductor at the Haendel Society, Kapel meister at the
Saint-Eustache church in Paris then director of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Reims for 50 years. He was also
choirmaster at the , participated in the "Société des Études Mozartiennes", was appointed head of the Choirs of the French Broadcasting (ancestors of the ), vice president of the , and a member of the "Commission des monuments historiques".
Félix Raugel was also an historian of the organ and the author of several works about this instrument, and also
Palestrina, ''L'oratorio'', and ''Le chant choral''.
''Le Chant choral'' : par Félix Raugel on WorldCat
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References
External links
on musimem.com
Félix Raugel
on Encyclopédie Larousse
Félix Raugel
on the Académie française
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20th-century French musicologists
People from Saint-Quentin, Aisne
1881 births
1975 deaths