Pierre Maillard-Verger (5 December 1910 – 30 April 1968) was a French classical pianist and composer. Born in Paris, Maillard-Verger was a student in

Paul Dukas Paul Abraham Dukas ( or ; 1 October 1865 – 17 May 1935) was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher. A studious man of retiring personality, he was intensely self-critical, having abandoned and destroyed many of his compositions. His b ...

's composition class 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 ...

. In 1939, he won the 1st Grand

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 ...

for composition with his cantata ''La farce du Mari fondu''. Maillard-Verger died at the

Hôtel-Dieu de Paris In French-speaking countries, a hôtel-Dieu ( en, hostel of God) was originally a hospital for the poor and needy, run by the Catholic Church. Nowadays these buildings or institutions have either kept their function as a hospital, the one in Paris b ...

in 1968.

Works

* 1939: Cantate du prix de Rome: ''La farce du Mari fondu'' * Music accompanying the reading by Jean Deschamps of ''La Chanson de Roland'' (trio of baritones and lute), and that of Antigone by Sophocles * Caprice, Etude en quartes, Petite Suite (7 easy pieces: ''Rêverie, Jeux, Polka, Echo, Valse, Plainte, Tarentelle'') for piano * Christmas for choir * Film scores

Discography as interpreter

* Mélodies by Fauré, with

Camille Maurane Camille Maurane (November 29, 1911 – January 21, 2010), born Camille Moreau, was a French baryton-martin singer. His father was a music teacher and he started singing as a child in the Maîtrise Saint-Evode in Rouen. The sudden death of his moth ...

* Mélodies by Fauré, with

Pierre Mollet Pierre Mollet (23 March 1920, Neuchâtel - 27 October 2007) was a Canadian operatic baritone. He was born in Switzerland. He became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1974 and in 1979, he married the Canadian pianist Suzanne Blondin. Mollet was ...

* Mélodies by Mozart, Schumann, Moussorgski, with Estel Sussman * Works of the Renaissance with the vocal sextet of France * Pieces by Beethoven, Mozart, Rameau as pianist

External links

Biography on musica et memoria

Discography
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Pierre Maillard-Verger (1956) performs Ravel, Schumann, Mozart
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