Albéric Magnard

Lucien Denis Gabriel Albéric Magnard , born with Paris the June 9th 1865 and died in Baron the September 3rd 1914, is a Compositeur French.

Biography

Wire of an editor association of the Barber, Albéric Magnard lost his/her mother at the 4 years age. It made studies of right before entering to the Conservatoire of Paris towards 1886, where he became the pupil of Dubois and Massenet. Later, it took lessons with Vincent d' Indy and learned the counterpoint with the Schola Cantorum, founded with Paris in 1894 by Bordes, Guilmant and of Indy.

It composed four Symphonie S - with the Orchestration rich, worthy of César Franck, of which majestic the Symphonie n°4 (1912) - a Funeral chant for Orchestre (1895), very moving, dedicated to the memory of his father, a Sonate for Violon and Piano, a sonata for Violoncelle, a Trio with piano, a String quartet, a Quintette for winds and piano as well as lyric works ( Bérénice, Yolande ). He wrote, moreover, some musical chronicles in the newspaper Le Figaro. Its work comprises only 21 opus.

In 1914, it lost the life at 49 years, in its manor with Baron (Oise) while resisting against a German attack, which destroyed the manuscript of Guercœur , its second opera like that of Yolande . Guy Ropartz, an old friend, reconstituted thereafter the partition of Guercœur which was represented for the first time in 1931.

Its life was marked by a certain number of engagements: it dedicated its fourth symphony to a feminist organization and resigned of the army as a supporter of Dreyfus.

Principal works

Of a rather méditatif nature, proud, proud, Albéric Magnard was all its suspicieux life of the expressions of admiration, out those resulting from its small circle of friends. More detrimental fact, it is known to be exclaimed one day: " The artist who does not draw his force in the abnegation is or close to his death or to the déshonneur". In short, it made very to be been unaware of general public. And it is what occurred to him. Of all the French type-setters of its time, it is certainly ignored the most. Its work however, in addition to that it constitutes an essential stake on the way which leads XIX^e to the XX^e century (one thinks, for example, with the aspect " stravinskien" sonata for violoncello), is splendid|According to Francis Pott, presentation of the symphonies n° 3 and 4 - Hyperion

symphonic Works:

Symphony n°1 (1889)
Symphony n°2 (1892 - 1893, rev. 1896)
Symphony n°3 (1895 - 1896)
Funeral chant (1895)
Anthem with justice (1902)
Symphony n°4 (1913)

lyric Works:

Yolande (1888 - 1891)
Guercœur (1897 - 1900)
Bérénice (1905 - 1909)

Chamber music:

Sonata for violin (1901)
String quartet COp 16 (1903)
Trio for piano (1904)
Sonata for violoncello (1910)

Recordings of Magnard

the integral of the symphonies, the Funeral chant , the Opening opus 10 , and the Anthem with justice by the National orchestra of Capitole of Toulouse, directed by Michel Plasson (EMI Classics);
the integral of the symphonies by BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestrated , directed by Jean-Yves Ossonce (Hyperion);
the integral of the symphonies by the Symphony orchestra of Malmö, directed by Thomas Sanderling ((a));
the String quartet by the Artis Quartet and the Sonata for violoncello by Thomas Demenga and Christoph Keller (Agreement);
the Sonata for violin and various parts for piano by Robert Zimansky and Christoph Keller (Agreement);
the Sonata for violoncello and the Trio by Xavier Philips, Governed Pasquier and Hüseyin Sermet (Auvidis).

External bonds

life and the work of Albéric Magnard

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