Roger Désormière

Roger Désormière (born with Vichy (To combine) on September 13rd 1898 and died with Paris on October 25th 1963), is a Leader and Compositeur French.

Biography

He enters to the Conservatoire of Paris and takes courses of Flûte with Philippe Gaubert, of harmony with Xavier Leroux, of orchestra with Vincent d' Indy and of counterpoint and running away with Charles Koechlin. It forms with Henri Sauguet, Maxime Jacob and Henri Pawl-Pleyel, the École of Arcueil which is placed under the crook of Erik Satie.

He becomes musical director of the Swedish Ballets (1924-1925) and of the Russian Ballets (1925-1929). As from 1932, it is interested in the film music and becomes director of the music of the Pathé-Nathan firm. It directs to the Scala, Covent Garden and Monte Carlo, the Op3era Comique (1937-1946) and to the Opera (1945), with the BBC in London (1946-1947). From 1947 to 1951 it directs the National orchestra of France.

It composes of the incidental musics, an operetta and several original soundtracks of films: the Rules of the game , Arlette and the love , the Man of the moment …

It founds with Serge Nigg, Louis Durey and Elsa Barraine, the French Association of the musicians progressists. As from 1952, it gives up its career, being reached of aphasia. It dies out into 1963 of the continuations of a lung cancer.

Burning defender of the French modern music, it knew ressusciter the chiefs of work of passed with many works of Jean-Philippe Rameau.

Henri Sauguet known as of him: “You were the guide, the revealing one, the support, the organizer, the propagator, the apostle who made radiate the life present of our Article”

Roger Désormière had married Colette Steinlen, girl of the draftsman and painter Theophilus-Alexandre Steinlen.

External bonds

Biography on the site of Radio France

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