Henri Rabaud

Henri Rabaud , born with Paris the November 10th 1873 and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine the September 11th 1949, is a Compositeur and Leader French.

Biography

He is the son of the violoncellist Hippolyte Rabaud, soloist of the Company in the Concerts and professor to the Conservatoire of Paris. His/her mother, professional singer, are had a presentiment of to create the role of Marguerite de Faust at the request of Charles Gounod; his/her maternal grandfather Van Steenkiste, more known under the name of his wife, Mrs. Dorus, is celebrates it flutist solo of the Opera and distinguished type-setter whose sister Mrs. Dorus-Fat obtains the principal roles of light soprano of the operas of Giacomo Meyerbeer and of Jacques Fromental Halévy.

He continues his studies with Condorcet and receives a complete musical education. When it returns to the Academy in 1891, it already composed a symphony which will be played concert of harmony of Antoine Taudou three years later. It has as professors, André Gedalge for the running away and the counterpoint and Jules Massenet for the composition.

max of Ollone tells that “famous young man the 19 year old, thin and bearded, with the serious and distant paces, of a literary and philosophical culture very wide, whose independence of mind and the tough will were read on its serious face. ” He does not worry to follow the fashion. He remains always enthusiast of traditional purity. First Large Price of Rome in 1894 as of its first contest. It composes a second symphony as a semi minor conceived under the impression of a storm, the night Procession (1896), episode of Faust of Lenau, symphonic poem (1899) which remains, still, with the repertory of the orchestras. He writes, also, a oratorio, Job , testimony of a strength moderated by some envoûtement, the Entertainment on Russian airs , a Psaume IV , a Eglogue , inspired by the first bucolique one of Virgile, the perfection of the String quartet which brings it closer, says one, of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.

The theater owes him five works of which the Girl of Roland (a Carolingian legend) created in the Op3era Comique on March 16th 1904 then taken again with the Opera in 1925. It makes a triumph with a tinted music of a fairy-like orientalism entitled Mârouf, cobbler of Cairo drawn from the Tales from the Arabian Nights and produces on May 15th 1934 with the voice of the baritone, Jean Périer. He writes the booklet of off the Call of the sea according to Ridders the Sea of Synge (Op3era Comique: April 10th 1924) whose subject presents the despair of a mother with whom it Ocean removed five wire to him and is on the point of charming the sixth to him. Roland and the bad lot of Lucien Népoty, created on May 25th 1934 with the Opera, does not have same success because it presents a philosophy melancholic person and disillusioned. Nevertheless, the partition remains, undoubtedly, the best produced by the type-setter.

Martine is created in Strasbourg as a friend 1947 according to the part of Jean-Jacques Bernard, the Play of the Love and the Chance (1948) according to Marivaux where the music tries to express the exact resonance of the characters.

It is interested in the Cinéma, the Miracles and the Wolves in 1924, first filmed drama projected with the Opera. It renews the experiment in 1925 with the Player of failures . Thus, new way is led to the type-setters.

At the time of the age limit of Gabriel Fauré with the Academy, it succeeds to him in 1920 until 1941 after being elected with the Institut of France in 1918. October 14th, 1940, before the promulgation of the antijuives laws, he addresses himself to the German authorities of Paris, to subject to them the case of the Jewish professors of his establishment. In 1943 - 1944, it sits at the sides of Jacques Thibaud, Marguerite Length and Germaine Lubin at the professional Committee of the musical art of the collaborator government of Vichy.

Its career of leader is important since in 1908 he is leader to the Opera and the Op3era Comique. In 1918, it takes the head of the Symphony orchestra of Boston.

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