Emmanuel - Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 ; Le PoéMe Du RhóNe

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Emmanuel, (Marie François) Maurice (1862–1938)

French musicologist and composer. He wrote several learned books on the musical idiom, Greek music, modal accompaniment, Burgundian folk song, and other subjects.

He studied at the Paris Conservatory and was a pupil of François Gevaert in Brussels. After various appointments as a historian and musician he became professor of music history at the Conservatory in succession to Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray in 1907 and retained the post until 1936.

Works:

Stage
Prométhée enchaîné (1916–18) and Salamino (1921–28, both after Aeschylus); operetta Pierrot peintre (1886); incidental music for Plautus' Amphitryon.

Orchestral
two symphonies, Suite française, Ouverture pour un conte gai, Zingaresca for orchestra.

Vocal
three Odelettes anacréontiques for voice, flute, and piano (1911); In memoriam matris and Musiques for voice and piano.

Chamber
violin and piano and cello and piano sonatas; Sonate bourguignonne and six sonatinas for piano.


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Maurice Emmanuel (2 May 1862 – 14 December 1938) was a French composer of classical music.

Born in Burgundy and brought up in Dijon, Marie François Maurice Emmanuel became a choristor at Beaune cathedral after his family moved to the city in 1869. He entered the Paris Conservatoire, studying composition with Léo Delibes, and came in touch with Claude Debussy who was also studying there.

Emmanuel pursued a notable academic career. He wrote a treatise in 1895 on the music of Ancient Greece, and was appointed professor of the history of music at the Paris Conservatoire in 1909. His students there included Olivier Messiaen and Henri Dutilleux. Emmanuel's interests included folksong, Oriental music, and exotic modes — his use of these modes in his compositions had appalled Delibes, who had vetoed his entering for the Prix de Rome.

Other appointments included choirmaster at the church of Sainte-Clotilde from 1904–1907, where Charles Tournemire was organist.

His compositions include operas after Aeschylus Prométhée enchaîné and Salamine as well as symphonies: 2nd symphony named 'le bretonne', string quartets and other chamber music. Like many of his compositions, his six sonatines for solo piano demonstrate his academic interests. The first draws on the music of Burgundy, the second incorporates birdsong, the third uses a Burgundian folk tune in its finale, the fourth is subtitled en divers modes Hindous ("in various Hindu modes").


Symphony No. 1 in A major, Op. 18
1.I. Tranquillo molto - Allegro, leggero e giocoso 00:08:38
2.II. Adagio molto 00:05:08
3. III. Allegro con fuoco 00:07:44

Symphony No. 2 in A major, Op. 25, "Bretonne"
4.I. Allegro un poco moderato 00:03:45
5.II. Scherzando 00:03:32
6.III. Andante malinconico 00:04:45
7.IV. Finale: Allegro con spirito 00:04:42

Le Poeme du Rhone, Op. 30

8.I. Tres que lent 00:07:15
9.II. Allant 00:04:04
10.III. Sans trainer 00:06:30

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