Julien Koszul (4 December 1844 – 15 January 1927) was a French composer and

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ist from

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Biography

Born in

Morschwiller-le-Bas Morschwiller-le-Bas (; ) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France. It forms part of the Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération, the inter-communal local government body for the Mulhouse conurbation. Composer and organis ...

, Alsace, Koszul studied at the

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with

Camille Saint-Saëns Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (; 9 October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic music, Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Piano C ...

, together with

Gabriel Fauré Gabriel Urbain Fauré (; 12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th-century composers ...

and

Eugène Gigout Eugène Gigout (; 23 March 1844 – 9 December 1925) was a French organist and a composer, mostly of music for his own instrument. Biography Gigout was born in Nancy, and died in Paris. A pupil of Camille Saint-Saëns, he served as the organi ...

as fellow students and friends. He moved to

Roubaix Roubaix ( or ; nl, Robaais; vls, Roboais) is a city in northern France, located in the Lille metropolitan area on the Belgian border. It is a historically mono-industrial commune in the Nord department, which grew rapidly in the 19th century ...

, where he took the direction of the National Conservatory of Music. He encouraged

Albert Roussel Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel (; 5 April 1869 – 23 August 1937) was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period. His ...

to undertake an artistic career. Composer

Henri Dutilleux Henri Paul Julien Dutilleux (; 22 January 1916 – 22 May 2013) was a French composer active mainly in the second half of the 20th century. His small body of published work, which garnered international acclaim, followed in the tradition of ...

and mathematician

Jean-Louis Koszul Jean-Louis Koszul (; January 3, 1921 – January 12, 2018) was a French mathematician, best known for studying geometry and discovering the Koszul complex. He was a second generation member of Bourbaki. Biography Koszul was educated at the in ...

were his grandsons. Henri Dutilleux, who often recalled his memory, paid tribute to him in 2005 by being the originator of the publication of his correspondence. Koszul died in

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Selected compositions

* 1872: ''Deux Mélodies'', poem by Charles Manso * 1873: ''Romanzette pour piano. No 1, In E ♭, N ° 2, in C * 1875: ''Puisque mai tout en fleurs ! Mélodie: No 1 contralto, baritone or mezzo-soprano * 1877: ''Aubade!'' Mélody for tenor, lyric by Charles Manso * 1879: ''S'il est un charmant Gazon !'', poem by

Victor Hugo Victor-Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the great ...

* 1879: ''Bonsoir, Madeleine!'' lullaby for soprano or tenor, poem by Marc Mounier * 1879: ''Sonnet!'', poem by Marc Monnier * 1893: ''Cantate Nadaud'', for solis, choir and military and symphonic orchesters, poem by Jules Rosoor ; score (piano and voice), Tourcoing : Rosoor-Delattre,
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* 1902: ''Quo vadis! scène chorale,'' ..., poem by Jules Rosoor
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* 1925: ''Yvonnette'', little Walloon waltz, for piano * Première Valse (recording)Première valse
on Worldcat

References

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