Max of Ollone

max of Ollone , born the June 13rd 1875 with Besancon, dead the May 15th 1959 with Paris, was a Leader, Compositeur and Musicographe French. He is the brother of the Explorateur Henri d' Ollone.

Biography

As of its young age, it shows tastes pronounced for the music and composes early. The tests of the child interest Charles Gounod, Camille Saint-Saëns and Jules Massenet. While continuing its studies, it is registered with the Conservatoire of Paris and becomes the pupil of Albert Lavignac, André Gedalge and Jules Massenet. It obtains all the prices until the First Large Prix of Rome in 1897 with the Cantate Frédégonde .

It composes a opera, Jean (1904) remained new whose concerts make known some fragments. In 1901, one represents with Béziers a Ballet, Bacchus and Silène whose Camille Saint-Saens, prevented to write it, places the order to him. He writes, itself, the booklet of the opera the Return , created in 1912 with Angers, then assembled with the Opéra of Paris on June 6th, 1919 with Mrs. Germaine Lubin in the main role (work presenting of the humanly painful beings, torn by memories of a past of which they know that they will not be able to remake at the present).

In 1913, the Concerts Column present the first table of Foreign the , lyric drama remained new as the Lovers of Rimini (1915) whose only third table is played Opera at the time of its cut spectacles of 1916. An act of the comic opera All and sundry on the text of Verlaine, played with the Opera the November 6th 1922, makes hear an erudite and fluid orchestration.

The originality of the type-setter appears in the opera the Harlequin represented the December 24th 1924 with the Opera on a booklet of Jean Sarment. One can quote, also, a Op3era Comique, Georges Dandin or the Husband Confused (Op3era Comique: March 1930).

In 1931, Monte Carlo presents the Abandoned Temple , Ballet whose partition is played three years later at Colonne. June 23rd, 1937, the Opera represents Samaritaine , lyric drama in three acts on the poem of Edmond Rostand which knew to keep the character of simplicity essential to the size of the evoked subject.

A long time professor with the Academy, it publishes two volumes on the Musical Language (Geneva, the Palatine one and Paris Plon 1952). Although having been subject to the influence of Richard Wagner and Jules Massenet, it develops in its music a personal dramatic direction.

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