René Maillard (8 April 1931 – 4 December 2012) was a French composer.

Life

Born in

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, Maillard had his first violin lessons during the Second World War with Charles Maillier, who was a violin teacher in Limoges. He was then a student of

Arthur Hoérée Arthur Hoérée (16 April 1897, Brussels – 2 June 1986, Paris) was a Belgian musicologist, critic, conductor and composer. He studied at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels from 1908 to 1912, then at the Conservatoire de Paris. He was a lecture ...

and at the Conservatory of Versailles with Aimé Steck before he entered 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 won first prizes for

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 ...

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 ...

and

fugue In music, a fugue () is a contrapuntal compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject (a musical theme) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation (repetition at different pitches) and which recurs frequently in the c ...

in the classes of

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and

Noël Gallon Noël Jean-Charles André Gallon (11 September 1891 – 26 December 1966) was a French composer and music educator. His compositional output includes several choral works and vocal art songs, 10 preludes, a ''Toccata'' for piano, a ''Sonata ...

. A student of

Tony Aubin Tony Louis Alexandre Aubin (8 December 1907 – 21 September 1981) was a French composer. Career Aubin was born in Paris. From 1925 to 1930, he studied at the Paris Conservatory under Samuel Rousseau (music theory), Noel Gallon (counterpoint) ...

for

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 ...

, he was awarded a Second 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 his

cantata A cantata (; ; literally "sung", past participle feminine singular of the Italian verb ''cantare'', "to sing") is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir. The meaning of ...

''Le rire de Gargantua'' by Randal Lemoine (after Rabelais) in 1955 during his first competition. The piece, performed by the Orchestra of the Opéra Comique with singers

René Bianco René Bianco (21 June 1908 – 23 January 2008) was a French operatic baritone who performed at the Opéra Comique and the Paris Opera in a wide variety of leading roles.Zisman, Marc (29 January 2008"Disparition de René Bianco, Le baryton f ...

, Louis Rialland and Jacqueline Cauchard conducted by Jean Fournet, earned him the Second Grand Prix. He was then hired by

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in 1957 as assistant to the "classical" artistic director

René Challan René Louis Jean Challan (12 December 1910 – 4 August 1978) was a French classical composer, impresario and art director for French record labels. René Challan was composer Henri Challan's twin brother and harpist Annie Challan's father. C ...

, a position he held until 1960. In particular, he was responsible for recordings by artists such as

Samson François Samson Pascal François (18 May 192422 October 1970) was a French pianist and composer. Biography François was born in Frankfurt where his father worked at the French consulate. His mother, Rose, named him Samson, for strength, and Pascal, fo ...

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Paul Tortelier Paul Tortelier (21 March 1914 – 18 December 1990) was a French cellist and composer. After an outstanding student career at the Conservatoire de Paris he played in orchestras in France and the US before the Second World War. After the war he b ...

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. Despite a favourable reception for his first compositions, the dislocation of the group "Pentacorde" and the appearance of the " serialist episode" encouraged him to abandon music for good. He then made a career as a senior executive in an international company. His works have been performed by artists such as

Jean Hubeau Jean Hubeau (22 June 191719 August 1992) was a French pianist, composer and pedagogue known especially for his recordings of Gabriel Fauré, Robert Schumann and Paul Dukas, which are recognized as benchmark versions. Biography Admitted at t ...

, André Collard, Robert Quatrocchi, Hélène Pignari, Jean Della-Valle, the Orchestre de chambre de la radio conducted by

Louis de Froment Louis de Froment (; 5 December 192119 August 1994) was a French conductor. Froment was born into a French noble family in Toulouse, and started his musical studies at the city conservatory. He later attended the ''Conservatoire national supérieu ...

, the Orchestre de chambre de Versailles conducted by Bernard Wahl. In 1960 the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence gave the creation of his Concerto da camera N°2 for strings under the direction of

Serge Baudo Serge Baudo (born 16 July 1927) is a French conductor, the son of the oboist Étienne Baudo. He is the nephew of the cellist Paul Tortelier. Baudo was conductor of the Orchestra of Radio Nice from 1959 to 1962. He then served as permanent conducto ...

. After an interruption of forty years,

Nicolas Bacri Nicolas Bacri (born 23 November 1961) is a French composer. He has written works that include seven symphonies, eleven string quartets, eight cantatas, two one-act operas, three piano sonatas, two cello and piano sonatas, four violin and piano ...

encouraged him to return to composition. Maillart began composing again in the early 2000s. Among others, a Sonata for viola and piano (for the duo Arnaud Thorette and Johan FarjotJohan Farjot
/ref>) and a string trio commissioned by the ''Trio des Solistes de Cannes'' (Berhilde Dufour, Eszter Biro and Philippe Cauchefer) were composed. About Maillard, Nicolas Bacri wrote: ... a new generation of performers is discovering (his work), sensitive to the charm of a discourse that is both dense and clear, part of a timeless classicism which, from Couperin to Dutilleux, via Roussel, has always been the mark of the great "French musicians". Maillard died in

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(

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) in 2012.

Works

At éditions Delatour France

* Sonata No. 1 for viola and piano, Op. 5 (1952, revised 2009) * Sonata No. 2 for viola and piano, Op. 18 (2003) * String Trio * Sonata for violin and piano * ''Petite suite'' for 2 double basses * ''Le Bal des champs'' for 3 voice choir, solo soprano and piano * ''Prélude Aria et Fugue'' for cello and organ * ''Fébrilité'', 3 melodies on poems by * ''Hymne et Toccata'' for organ * Toccata for piano * Concerto da camera No. 1 for strings * Concerto da camera No. 2 for strings (Disque Naxos) * Concerto grosso for wind quintet and string orchestra (Disque Naxos)

At éditions « Le Chant du Monde »

* String Quartet * Wind Quintet * Duo Sonata for Violin (disc TRITON) * ''Survivre après Hiroshima'', cantata for mezzo-soprano, choir and orchestra (

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) * Sonata for organ

References

External links

Maillard, Sonate pour piano
(YouTube) {{DEFAULTSORT:Maillard, Rene French classical composers French male classical composers French male composers Conservatoire de Paris alumni Prix de Rome for composition People from Bois-Colombes 1931 births 2012 deaths