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Marie-Thérèse Gauley
Marie-Thérèse Gauley (15 February 1903 – 23 January 1992) was a French opera and concert singer who sang leading soprano and mezzo-soprano roles at the Opéra-Comique in Paris as well as in other French cities and abroad. She was also heard in early broadcasts on French radio and made several recordings for Disques Odéon. Amongst the roles she created were The Child in Ravel's opera ''L'enfant et les sortilèges''. Life and career Gauley was born in Paris to Armande Gauley (1864–1922), an actor at the Théâtre de l'Odéon, and Marie Gauley-Texier (1866–1948), a mezzo-soprano who sang at the Opéra de Paris. The couple also taught diction and singing to private pupils at their apartments on the Avenue de Tourville. As a child she sometimes performed with her parents, including two matinees given by the Baroness de Beaulieu in 1913. Gauley was a student at the Paris Conservatory from 1921 until 1924. In her final year she won the conservatory's first prizes in singing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, fourth-most populous city in the European Union and the List of cities proper by population density, 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2022. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, culture, Fashion capital, fashion, and gastronomy. Because of its leading role in the French art, arts and Science and technology in France, sciences and its early adoption of extensive street lighting, Paris became known as the City of Light in the 19th century. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 inhabitants in January 2023, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Paris
Radio Paris was a French radio broadcasting company best known for its Axis propaganda broadcasts in Vichy France during World War II. Radio Paris evolved from the first private radio station in France, called Radiola, founded by pioneering French engineer Émile Girardeau in 1922. It became Radio Paris on 29 March 1924, and remained so through 17 June 1940, transitioning to state ownership in December 1933 as the premier station in the country. It kept its name from July 1940 until August 1944, but the station was then run by Nazis and French collaborators. From 1940, collaborationist voices on Radio Paris included Jacques Doriot and Philippe Henriot. From 1942, Jean Hérold-Paquis broadcast daily news reports on Radio Paris, in which he regularly called for the "destruction" of the United Kingdom. His catch phrase was "England, like Carthage, shall be destroyed!", echoing Cato the Elder's slogan '' Carthago delenda est''. On 19 September 1941, Maurice Chevalier sang in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Planel
Robert Planel (2 January 1908 – 25 May 1994) was a French composer, music pedagogue and violinist. Life Born in Montélimar, Planel was the son of the founder (1903) and director of the music school in Montélimar, Alphonse Planel (1869-1947), who himself, from 1902 to 1947, was conductor of the ''Harmonie municipale "La Lyre" montilienne'' and also composer. Planel received violin lessons with René Chédécal, then 1st violinist of the Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris. From 1922 to 1933, he studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with, among others, Firmin Touche (1875-1957) (violin), Jean Gallon (1878-1959) (harmony), Georges Caussade (1873-1936) (counterpoint) and with Henri Büsser (1872-1973) and Paul Vidal (1863-1931) (musical composition). During his studies, he worked as a violinist in prominent cinemas in the French capital. In 1933, he won the prestigious Prix de Rome for his cantata ''Idylle funambulesque''. As a result, he was able to study and work from 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Roger-Ducasse
Jean Jules Aimable Roger-Ducasse (Bordeaux, 18 April 1873 – Le Taillan-Médoc (Gironde), 19 July 1954) was a French composer. Biography Jean Roger-Ducasse studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Émile Pessard and André Gedalge, and was the star pupil and close friend of Gabriel Fauré. He succeeded Fauré as professor of composition, and in 1935 he succeeded Paul Dukas as professor of orchestration. His personal style was firmly rooted in the French school of orchestration, in an unbroken tradition from Hector Berlioz through Camille Saint-Saëns. Among his notable pupils were Jehan Alain, Claude Arrieu, Sirvart Kalpakyan Karamanuk, Jean-Louis Martinet, and Francis George Scott. Compositions Roger-Ducasse wrote music in nearly all classical forms, and was particularly known for his operatic stage works and orchestral compositions. These include: *''Au Jardin de Marguerite'', 1901–05 Based on an episode in Goethe's ''Faust'' *''Sarabande'', 1907 Symphonic poem with c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omer Letorey
Omer Letorey (4 May 1873 – 21 March 1938) was a French composer. Born in Chalon-sur-Saône, from 1887 Letorey attended the music school of Louis Niedermeyer. From 1891 he studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Émile Pessard; at the same time he became organist at the Ste-Elisabeth church. In 1895 he won the first Premier Grand Prix de Rome with the lyrical scene ''Clarisse Harlowe''. After his studies Letorey was musical director at the Comédie-Française until 1922. Furthermore, he was from 1900 successor of Edmond Missa, organist at the Église Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin, from 1903 cantor and organist at the St-Pierre-de-Chaillot church and from 1923 to 1925 cantor at the St-Honoré-d'Eylau church. In addition to church music, Letorey composed several drama music and operas. His incidental music for ''Macbeth'', which was premiered in 1914 at the Comédie Française, and the opera ''Le Sicilien'' (after Molière), which was premiered in 1930 at the Opéra-Comique with the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max D'Ollone
Maximilien-Paul-Marie-Félix d'Ollone (13 June 1875 – 15 May 1959) was a 20th-century French composer. Life and career Born in Besançon, d'Ollone started composing very early, entering the Paris Conservatoire at 6, winning many prizes, receiving the encouragement of Gounod, Saint-Saëns, Massenet, Thomas and Delibes. His teachers at the Conservatoire were Lavignac, Massenet, Gédalge and Lenepveu; he won the Prix de Rome in 1897. He was director of music in Angers, professor at the Paris Conservatoire and director of the Opéra-Comique. His work was part of the music event in the art competition at the 1912 Summer Olympics. In 1932 he wrote three important articles for ''Le Ménestrel'' (29 July, 9 and 16 December) arguing for a more populist approach to composition. At the time of the German occupation of France during World War II, d'Ollone was a member of the Groupe Collaboration. In addition to the works listed below, d'Ollone produced a number of song cycles (in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Bousquet
Francis Bousquet (9 September 1890 – 21 December 1942) was a French composer. Educated at the Conservatoire de Paris, he won the Prix de Rome in 1923. His compositions included three operas, a ballet, and several symphonic and chamber music works. From 1926 until his death he was also the director of Conservatoire de Roubaix. Bousquet was born in Marseille and died in Roubaix at the age of 52. He had been awarded the Légion d'honneur in 1934. Life and career Bousquet was born in Marseille and began his musical studies there before enrolling in the Conservatoire de Paris in 1907 where he studied under Xavier Leroux, André Gedalge and Charles-Marie Widor. He won the conservatory's First Prize in harmony in 1909 and First Prize in counterpoint in 1910. His studies were interrupted for four years by World War I when he served in an engineering regiment of the French Army. From 1915 to 1918, Nadia and Lili Boulanger, both graduates of the conservatory, published ''Gazette des Cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aix-les-Bains
Aix-les-Bains (, ; ; ), known locally and simply as Aix, is a Communes of France, commune in the southeastern French Departments of France, department of Savoie.Commune d'Aix-les-Bains (73008) INSEE Situated on the shore of the largest natural lake of glacial origin in France, the Lac du Bourget, this resort is a major List of spa towns in France, spa town; it has the largest freshwater marina in France. It is the second largest city in the Savoie department in terms of population, with a population of 32,175 as of 2022. It is part of the Chambéry functional area (France), functional urban area. A leading town of the Belle Époque, of international renown, Aix-les-Bains was a vacation destination for nobility and the wealthy. Although the thermal baths are no longer the main a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Büsser
Paul Henri Büsser (16 January 1872 – 30 December 1973) was a French classical composer, organist, conductor and teacher. Among his teachers were César Franck, Charles Gounod and Jules Massenet. In addition to his own compositions Büsser edited and orchestrated a wide range of music – mostly but not exclusively French – dating from the 17th to the 20th centuries. He was at various times in his career the conductor of the Paris Opéra and the Opéra-Comique, and professor of composition at the Conservatoire de Paris. Life and career Büsser was born in Toulouse of partly German ancestry. He was the son of an organist, Fritz Büsser (1846–1879), and sang as a boy in the choir of Toulouse Cathedral under before entering the École Niedermeyer de Paris in 1885 to study with Alexandre Georges.Kelly, Barbara L“Büsser (Busser), (Paul-)Henri” ''Grove Music Online'', Oxford University Press, 2001. He entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1889, studying organ with César ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Delannoy
Marcel-François-Georges Delannoy (9 July 1898 – 14 September 1962) was a French composer and critic.Hoérrée A. Marcel Delannoy. In: ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera.'' Macmillan, London and New York, 1997. He wrote operas, ballets, orchestral works, vocal and chamber works, and film scores. Life and career Marcel Delannoy was born at La Ferté-Alais, Essonne, France. He initially studied painting and architecture and entered the École des Beaux-Arts, but at age 20 he took up music. Having been mobilised during the First World War, he then worked as an artist. However, he was initially self-taught and never attended a conservatory, but he did receive some encouragement from Arthur Honegger (whose biography he wrote in 1953) and some lessons from Alexis Roland-Manuel and André Gedalge. He made his name with the opera ''Le Poirier de misère'' (1927), which attracted favourable commentary from Maurice Ravel, among others. That same year, he was one of ten composers who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teatro San Carlo
The Real Teatro di San Carlo ("Royal Theatre of Saint Charles"), as originally named by the Bourbon monarchy but today known simply as the Teatro (di) San Carlo, is a historic opera house in Naples, Italy, connected to the Royal Palace and adjacent to the Piazza del Plebiscito. It is the oldest continuously active venue for opera in the world, having opened in 1737, decades before either Milan's La Scala or Venice's La Fenice."The Theatre and its history" on the Teatro di San Carlo's official website. (In English). Retrieved 23 December 2013 The opera season runs from late November to July, with the ballet season from December to early June. The house once had a seating capacity of 3,285, but has now been reduced to 1,386 seats. Given its size, structure and antiquity, it was the model for theatre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ariane Et Barbe-bleue
''Ariane et Barbe-bleue'' (, ''Ariadne and Bluebeard'') is an opera in three acts by Paul Dukas. The French libretto is adapted (with very few changes) from the symbolist play of the same name by Maurice Maeterlinck, itself loosely based on the French literary tale '' La Barbe bleue'' by Charles Perrault. Dukas had been impressed by Maeterlinck's play when it was first published in 1899. Maeterlinck had initially reserved the rights to use ''Ariane'' as a libretto for Edvard Grieg. When Grieg abandoned his plans to compose the opera, Maeterlinck offered it to Dukas instead. Dukas worked on the score between 1899 and 1906.Holden, pp. 248–249 The work has often been compared to Debussy's opera '' Pelléas et Mélisande'' (1902), also based on a Maeterlinck play; Debussy had virtually finished his score by the time Dukas began work on his. The names of Barbe-bleue's five former wives are taken from previous plays by Maeterlinck: Sélysette from ''Aglavaine et Sélysette'' (1896), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
