Henri Cliquet-Pleyel was a French composer born on 12 March 1894 in Paris and died in that city on 9 May 1963. In 1913 he undertook musical studies at the
Conservatoire de Paris
The Conservatoire de Paris (), also known as the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue ...
under teachers André Gedalge and Eugène Cools, from whom he learned counterpoint and fugue, before taking up composition studies with
Charles Koechlin, who had taught such diverse musicians as
Poulenc,
Milhaud
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(members of the group
Les Six
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) and
Cole Porter.
He obtained a position as director of vocal studies at the school in Cannes, later transferring to Deauville, and finally to Aix-les-Bains. In 1923 he co-founded the
School of Arcueil, with fellow musicians, Henri Sauguet, Maxime Jacob, and Roger Désormière. The four were devotees of the music of
Erik Satie, who was living in Arcueil at the time. The musicians of this group dedicated themselves to the musical goals of clarity, simplicity, and a commitment to French musical tradition, including French humor, which they felt was typified by Satie's music. The group was short-lived, and did not long survive Satie's death in 1925. Cliquet-Pleyel is one of the few notable composers known to have written a
piano concerto for the ''right hand'' alone (dozens of concerti for
''left-hand'' alone exist).
[Shattuck, Roger. ''The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France: 1885 to World War I''. Vintage Books/Random House: New York. (1955, rev. 1967)]
Selected List of Works
With Orchestra
* The Beautiful Enchantress, operetta (1938)
* Transbaïkal for piano and orchestra (1938)
* Spain, for chorus and orchestra (1938)
* Sardana (1938)
* Concerto for piano (right hand) and orchestra (1939)
* Concerto for piano and orchestra (1940)
* Phaedra, for choir and orchestra (1940)
* Song of the Columns, for women's chorus and orchestra (1945)
* Scenes for Ballet (1962)
* Beetles, for voice and small orchestra (1962)
For Piano
* Three Pieces in the Style of Erik Satie
rois pièces à la manière d'Erik Satie(1921)
* Suite (1922)
* 1st Tango (1920)
* 2nd Tango (192?)
* 3rd Tango (1921)
* 4th Tango (1922)
* 5th Tango (192?)
* 1st Blues (Come Along) (1922)
* 2nd Blues (Far Away) (1922)
* Menuet (1926)
* Le Tombeau de Satie (1928)
* Seven Etudes for piano (1935)
* Childish Evenings, for piano, four hands (1937)
* Sonata (1940)
* Seven Preludes (1942)
Other Ensembles
* Sonata #1 for Violin and Piano
* Sonata #2 for Violin and Piano
* Sonata #3 for Violin and Piano
* Trio for Piano and Strings
* String Quartet #1 (1912)
* String Quartet #2 (1923)
* Trio for Piano, Clarinet and Harp (1962)
* Incidental music for several films.
[Randel, Don Michael. ''The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music''. Harvard University Press Reference Library. (1996)]
References
External links
Encyclopedie Larousse article on Cliquet-Pleyel Encyclopædia Universalis article on the School of Arcueil
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French composers
French male composers
1894 births
1963 deaths
20th-century French male musicians