Henri Sauguet

Henri Sauguet , of his true name Henri-Pierre Poupart, born with Bordeaux the May 18th 1901 and died in Paris the June 22nd 1989, is a Compositeur French.

Biography

He adopts the name of young girl of his mother like pseudonym. He was elected with the Académie of the Art schools in 1976, received officer of the Légion of honor in 1956, officer of the National order of the Merit and commander of the Ordre of Arts and the Letters and lasting President of many years to the Société of the Authors and Dramatic Type-setters and Association Una Voce.

As of the five years age, it receives his mother, Elisabeth, and of Marie Bordier her first piano lessons. Then, it follows the courses of Mr. Loureau of Pagesse, organist of chorus of the Holy-Eulalie church of Bordeaux, its parish. The music of church and more especially the Orgue have without any doubt deeply marked its youth. Indeed, it was raises of organ of Paul Combes and occupied the station of Organiste of the Saint-Vincent church of Floirac of 1916 to 1922. “organ! The dream of my young existence” writes it in its autobiographical work, the Music, my life . Another decisive influence, that of Claude Debussy of which work enthusiasm. The often told anecdote wants that the only letter that it decided to write to him came from to the type-setter the day of his death, the March 23rd 1918.

The mobilization of his/her father in 1914 obliges it to earn its living very early. Thus it becomes employed with the Prefecture of Montauban in 1919-1920 and which it binds of friendship with Joseph Canteloube - which collected and harmonized traditional songs auvergnats under the title Chants of Auvergne - which teaches the composition to him.

Returned in Bordeaux, it founds the Groupe of the Three with Louis Émié and Jean-Marcel Lizotte with an aim of making hear the most recent and free music of any influence. Their first concert takes place on December 12th, 1920 with pages of the Groupe of the Six (Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Germaine Tailleferre, Darius Milhaud and Francis Poulenc), of Erik Satie and Groupe of the Three with like works of Henri Sauguet: its negro Dance and its Pastoral for piano .

As of October 1921, it is fixed at Paris to supplement its musical formation with Charles Koechlin and works as secretary of the Musée Guimet while representing a lubricating oil house.

In 1923, four young musicians: Henri Pawl-Pleyel, Roger Désormière, Maxime Jacob and Henri Sauguet found " the School of Arcueil" by friendship for Erik Satie which remained in this commune and, on October 25th, 1923, present to the Théâtre Fields-Élysées their first concert.

Its Parisian career starts in 1924 with the ballet the Pinks writes at the request of the count Etienne de Beaumont and continuous with a in an act entitled Plumet of the Colonel Opera-puffs out. It integrates the circles of the new music and collaborates, in particular, with men of theater like Charles Dullin ( Irma , 1926) and Louis Jouvet ( Ondine , 1939). It is essential with opera-puff out ( the Double bass , 1930), of the comic operas and operas ( Chartreuse of Parma , 1936, Whims of Marianne , 1954, the unforeseen Challenge , 1942), four symphonies whose expiatory symphony (1947) with the memory of the victims of the Second world war, two Concerto S for Piano, two concertos for Violon, a Mélodie concerting for Violoncelle and orchestrates in 1948, of the chamber music ( String quartet for two violins, viola and violoncello , 1948), the symphonic continuation Tables of Paris . He works actively and in a constant way between 1933 and 1965 for the cinema and television. Let us quote the film musics: the Sparrowhawk (Marcel the Herbarium, 1933), the Honourable Catherine (Marcel the Herbarium, 1942), First of cord (Daquin, 1943), in love ones are alone in the world (Decoin, 1947), Clochemerle (Channel, 1947), Don Juan (Berry, 1955), When the child appears (1956), the Hour of truth (1965)…

Lastly, it does not compose less twenty-seven ballets between 1924 and 1965, of which the She-cat (1927), the Night (1929), Mirages (1943), Open the of Boris Kochno, created by Roland Petit, on March 2nd, 1945, which represents an important date for the contemporary ballet and whose success was immediate, the Lady with the camellias (1957), Pâris (1964).

Henri Sauguet wrote a book: Music, my life . He devoted himself to his art in perfect simplicity clearly and he said: “To be simple while using of a complex language is not easy. It is necessary to listen to the council of Branch which prescribed to even hide art by art and to believe with Stendhal that only the conceited and cold hearts confuse the complicated one, the difficult one with beautiful” the .

To hear its music

To listen to an extract of the ballet Open the represented on March 2nd, 1945 with the Theater of the Fields-Élysées according to a booklet of Boris Kochno and on a choreography of Small Roland.

Source

Henri Sauguet, Music, my life , Séguier Bookstore, 1990.

External bonds

Biography of Sauguet
Homage of Jean Prodromidès pronounced to the Academy of the Art schools

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