Jean Déré (23 June 1886 – 6 December 1970) was a French music educator and composer.

Life

Born in

Niort Niort (; Poitevin: ''Niàu''; oc, Niòrt; la, Novioritum) is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department, western France. It is the prefecture of Deux-Sèvres. The population of Niort is 58,707 (2017) and more than 177,000 people live in the ...

, Déré was introduced to classical music by his father, who was organist and choir director in Niort, and performed in public at the age of six. From 1897 he studied 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 ...

, where he was a student of

Louis Diémer Louis Joseph Diémer (14 February 1843 – 21 December 1919) was a French pianist and composer. He was the founder of the Société des Instruments Anciens in the 1890s, and also gave recitals on the harpsichord. His output as a composer was exte ...

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, Georges Caussade, Charles Lenepveu, Jules Massenet and

Charles Marie Widor Charles-Marie-Jean-Albert Widor (21 February 1844 – 12 March 1937) was a French organist, composer and teacher of the mid-Romantic era, most notable for his ten organ symphonies. His Toccata from the fifth organ symphony has become one of th ...

. Already in the time of the First World War he developed his first compositions, among them a symphonic poem and an opera. During this time he also taught in Niort and temporarily represented Widor as organist at The Great Organ of Église Saint-Sulpice de Paris, where he also met

Albert Schweitzer Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer (; 14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965) was an Alsatian-German/French polymath. He was a theologian, organist, musicologist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician. A Lutheran minister, Schweit ...

several times. As the competition and the

Prix de Rome The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them t ...

were suspended during the war, Déré had already clearly exceeded the maximum age of thirty years laid down in the rules when he participated in 1919. He won the "Second Grand Prix" with the cantata ''Le Poéte et la Fée''. He then taught counterpoint at the Conservatoire de Paris before becoming professor of solfège and harmony from 1937 to 1956. In 1933 he became one of the pioneers in the broadcasting of great classical concerts with

Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht (17 September 188014 February 1965) was a French composer, conductor and writer. Life and career Inghelbrecht was born in Paris, the son of a violist. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire and made his debut as a ...

, Élisabeth Brasseur and Igor Stravinsky. He was

Jacques Loussier Jacques Loussier (26 October 1934 – 5 March 2019) was a French pianist and composer. He arranged jazz interpretations of many of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, such as the ''Goldberg Variations''. The Jacques Loussier Trio, founded in 195 ...

's teacher. He is the author of pieces for piano, violin, orchestra and an opera ''Le Mirage''. He is also author of film music, in particular '' Kœnigsmark'' (1923). He remained active as a composer and wrote numerous church music works in addition to orchestral and choral works and chamber music. Déré died in

Sainte-Suzanne, Mayenne Sainte-Suzanne () is a former commune in the Mayenne department in north-western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Sainte-Suzanne-et-Chammes.Christopher Marlowe * ''Andante et Scherzo'' for clarinet and piano * ''Suite brève et disparate'' for cello and piano * ''Chant héroïque'' for cello and piano * ''Deux sonates'' and ''Trois sonatines'' for violin and piano * ''Trois sonatines'' for piano * ''A la campagne'' for piano * ''Trois marines'' for piano * ''Trois danses anciennes'' for piano * ''Chants arabes'' after * ''Les Saintes du Paradis'',

song cycle A song cycle (german: Liederkreis or Liederzyklus) is a group, or cycle (music), cycle, of individually complete Art song, songs designed to be performed in a sequence as a unit.Susan Youens, ''Grove online'' The songs are either for solo voice ...

after Rémy de Gourmont * ''Jeux et chansons à la mode de chez nous'' * ''Cinq Repons pour les funérailles : Libera me, Domine, Subvenite, In paradisum, Credo quod Redemptor'' and ''Qui Lazarum''.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dere, Jean 1886 births 1970 deaths 20th-century French composers 20th-century French male musicians French classical composers French male classical composers French music educators Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Paris Conservatoire de Paris alumni Prix de Rome for composition Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur People from Niort