Raoul Laparra (13 May 1876 – 4 April 1943) was a French composer.

Life

Born in

Bordeaux Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefect ...

, Laparra 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 ...

with André Gedalge, Jules Massenet, Gabriel Fauré and

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. In 1903 he won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome with his cantata ''Alyssa''. Laparra worked as a music critic for the magazines ''

Le Ménestrel ''Le Ménestrel'' (The Minstrel) was an influential French music journal published weekly from 1833 until 1940. It was founded by Joseph-Hippolyte l'Henry and originally printed by Poussièlgue. In 1840 it was acquired by the music publishers Heug ...

'' and ''Le Matin'' and taught at the Conservatoire de Paris. Among his students were

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and

Cemal Reşit Rey Cemal Reşit Rey (; 25 October 1904 – 7 October 1985) was a Turkish composer, pianist, script writer and conductor. He was well known for a string of successful and popular Turkish-language operettas for which his brother Ekrem Reşit Rey (1 ...

. His compositions are often influenced by Spanish and Basque folk music. He remains one of the masters of French Hispanism without remaining locked up in this speciality. He was the brother of the painter

William Laparra William Julien Emile Edouard Laparra (25 November 1873, Bordeaux - 5 September 1920, Valle de Hecho) was a French painter of portraits and genre scenes. The composer, Raoul Laparra, was his younger brother. Biography His father, Joseph Edouar ...

. He died during the bombing of Boulogne-Billancourt in 1943 and is buried in

Chézy-sur-Marne Chézy-sur-Marne (, literally ''Chézy on Marne'') is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. 2009 flood The town was hit by a flash flood and mudslide on 14 June 2009 after a violent localised storm. Car ...

Selected works

* ''Peau d'âne'', Opera, 1899 * ''La Habanera'', Drame lyrique, 1900–1903Rivista enciclopedica contemporanea
Editore Francesco Vallardi, Milan, (1913), entry by G. Cesari, page 14. * ''Amphitryon'', stage music for the play by

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, 1904–1907 * ''La Jota'', Conte lyrique, 1908–1911 * ''Suite ancienne en marge de Don Quichotte'' for violin or viola and piano, 1921 * ''Le Joueur de viole'', Conte lyrique, 1925 * ''Le Livre de l'aurore'', Suite for flute and piano, 1926 * ''Las Toreras'', Zarzuela after

Tirso de Molina Gabriel Téllez ( 24 March 1583 20 February 1648), better known as Tirso de Molina, was a Spanish Baroque dramatist, poet and Roman Catholic monk. He is primarily known for writing '' The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest'', the play from ...

, 1929 * ''L'Illustre Frégona'', Zarzuela based on

Miguel de Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (; 29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616 NS) was an Early Modern Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. He is best kno ...

, 1931

Bibliography

* Stéphan Etcharry, articles in Carlos Alvar, ''Gran Enciclopedia Cervantina'', 10 volumes (Madrid:

University of Alcalá The University of Alcalá ( es, Universidad de Alcalá) is a public university located in Alcalá de Henares, a city 35 km (22 miles) northeast of Madrid in Spain and also the third-largest city of the region. It was founded in 1293 as a ...

, Centro de Estudios Cervantinos, Castalia editorial S. A., 2005), . ** ''L'Illustre Fregona'' (Raoul Laparra) ** ''Suite ancienne en marge de Don Quichotte'' (Raoul Laparra) * Stéphan Etcharry, ''Le Prix de Rome de composition de 1903: La cantate Alyssa de Raoul Laparra. Essai de caractérisation du style musical'', in ''Musiker. Cuadernos de Música'', no. 16 (Donostia, Saint-Sébastien: Eusko Ikaskuntza ociété d'Études Basques 2008), . * Stéphan Etcharry, "'La Jota' (1911) à l'Opéra-Comique: L''Espagne noire' de Raoul Laparra", in: Alexandre Dratwicki and Agnès Terrier (eds), ''Exotisme et art lyrique'' (Paris/Venice: Opéra-Comique/Palazzetto Bru Zane, Centre de musique romantique française, June 2012), published online on 26 September 2016, p. 1-27, [bruzanemediabase.com : http://www.bruzanemediabase.com/Parutions-scientifiques-en-ligne/Articles/Etcharry-Stephan-La-Jota-1911-a-l-Opera-Comique.-L-Espagne-noire-de-Raoul-Laparra/(offset)/2]. * Samuel Llano, ''Whose Spain? Negotiating Spanish music in Paris, 1908–1929'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).

References

External links

Laparra
on IMSLP

on Naxos
Raoul Laparra (1876 - 1943)
on UR research
Vanni Marcoux, ''Et c'est à moi que l'on dit chante'', Laparra ''La habanera''
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