Henri Benjamin Rabaud

Henri (Benjamin) Rabaud , ( Paris , 10 November 1873 - Neuilly-sur-Seine , 11 September 1949 ) was a French composer , music teacher and conductor .

Life course [ edit ]

Rabaud came from a musical family, his grandfather was Louis Dorus , a well-known flautist, his great-aunt Julie Dorus-Gras a famous soprano and his father Hippolyte Rabaud (1839-1900), was a respected cellist and music teacher. Rabaud began his music studies with his father and then went to the Paris Conservatory where Jules Massenet was his composition teacher and André Gedalge teacher for fugue and counterpoint. In 1894 he won the coveted Prix ??de Rome with his cantata Daphne and in 1900 he had great success with his oratorio Job. After visiting Rome, Vienna and other European capitals, he returned to France, where he became a professor of harmony at the Paris Conservatory . At that time he was the permanent conductor of both the Opéra-Comique and the Opéra de Paris . In 1918 and 1919 Rabaud conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra . In 1920 he succeeded Gabriel Fauré as director of the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique , this post he held until 1941. In essence Rabaud was archconservative and had as a maxim "modernism is the enemy". He also did not notice much with, among other things, the music of Wagner , which clearly changed after he once theBayreuther Festspiele visited. His second theater work Mârouf, savetier de Caire combines drama à la Wagner with oriental exoticism.

Compositions [ edit ]

Working for orchestra [ edit ]

Symphonies [ edit ]

1893 Symphony No. 1 in d minor , for orchestra, op. 1

1899 - 1900 Symphony No. 2 in e minor , for orchestra, op. 5

Concerts for instruments and orchestra [ edit ]

1945 Prélude et Toccata in C major , for piano and orchestra

Other works for orchestra [ edit ]

1894 - 1895 L'été , after a poem by Victor Hugo , for soprano, mixed choir and orchestra

1896 - 1898 La procession nocturne , symphonic poem to a story by Nikolaus Lenau for orchestra, op. 6

1899 Épisode du Faust de Lenau , symphonic poem for orchestra

1899 2 divertissements sur des chansons russes , for orchestra

1899 Eglogue , for orchestra

1930 Lamento , for orchestra

1944 Prologue, Epilogue , for orchestra

Working for concert band [ edit ]

1901 Solo the competition , for clarinet solo and wind band (identical with the eponymous work for clarinet and piano)

Missing, oratorios, cantatas and sacred music [ edit ]

1894 Daphne , cantata

1900 Job , oratorio for soloists and orchestra, op. 9 - text: C. Raffalli and H. de Gorsse

1901 Psaume IV , for soloists, mixed choir and orchestra, op. 4

1905 Deuxième poème lyrique sur le livre the " Job " , for baritone and orchestra, op. 11 - text: translated into the Hebrew Bible by Ernest Renan

1938 Ave verum , for four voices and organ

Music theater [ edit ]

Operas [ edit ]

Completed in title deeds premiere libretto

1904 La Fille de Roland 4 companies March 16, 1904 , Paris , Opéra-Comique Paul Ferrier to Henri de Bornier

1914 Mârouf, savetier du Caire 5 companies May 15, 1914 , Paris, Opéra-Comique Lucien Népoty to Joseph Charles Mardrusà " Mille et une nuits ( One Thousand and One Nights )"

1924 L'Appel de la mer 1 deed 10 April 1924 , Paris, Opéra-Comique from the composer to John Millington Synge "Riders to the Sea"

1934 Rolande et le mauvais garçon 5 companies May 25, 1934 , Paris, Opéra Garnier Lucien Népoty

1947 Martine 5 scenes April 26, 1947 , Strasbourg Jean-Jacques Bernard

1948 Le jeu de l'amour and du hasard 3 acts November 19, 1954 , Monte Carlo (Monaco) Marivaux

Stage music [ edit ]

1898 Le premier glaive - text: Lucien Népoty

1917 Trois Suites anglaises du XVIe siècle , stage music to " Antoine et Cléopâtre " and " Marchand de Venise ", for orchestra - text: Lucien Népoty to William Shakespeare

Working for choirs [ edit ]

1909 Deux chansons , for women's choir - text: A. Spire

Vocal music [ edit ]

1897 6 melodies , for voice and orchestra - text: A. de Lamartine, T. Gautier, G. Vicaire and A. Silvestre

1909 3 melodies , for voice and orchestra - text: F. Gregh, A. Rivoire and H. Bataill

Chamber music [ edit ]

1890 Romances sans paroles , for cello and piano

1898 String quartet in c minor , op. 3

1899 Andante, Scherzetto , for flute and violin

1949 Trio , for oboe, clarinet and bassoon

Fantaisie sur "Mârouf, savetier du Caire , for trombone and piano

Film music [ edit ]

1924 Les Miracles et les Loups

1924 - 1925 Du Joueur d'échecs

Bibliography [ edit ]

Wolfgang Suppan, Armin Suppan : Das Neue Lexikon des Blasmusikwesens , 4. Auflage, Freiburg-Tiengen, Blasmusikverlag Schulz GmbH, 1994, ISBN 3-923058-07-1

Annegret Fauser: The Orchestergang in Frankreich, 1870 and 1920 , Regensburg: Laaber-Verlag, 1994, 380 p., ISBN 3-890072-91-7

Paul E. Bierley, William H. Rehrig: The heritage encyclopedia of band music: composers and their music , Westerville, Ohio: Integrity Press, 1991, ISBN 0-918048-08-7

Harry R. Gee: Clarinet solos de concours 1897-1980 - An annotated bibliography , Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1981. viii, 118 p., ISBN 0-253135-77-X

Stéphane Wolff: L'opéra au Palais Garnier (1875-1962) - les œuvres, les interprètes . Discography d'André Lejeune. Documentation photographique de Satar. Les chapitres concernant la danse et les danseurs ont été réalisés avec la collaboration de Maurice Tassart, Paris: Deposé au journal L'Entr'acte, 1962, 565 p.

Max d'Ollone: Henri Rabaud: sa vie et son oeuvre . The Rolland, Paris 1958

Paul Landormy: La musique française après Debussy . 6th edition, Gallimard, Paris 1943

Paul Landormy: Henri Rabaud, Max d'Ollone and Roger Ducasse . in: "Le Théâtre Lyrique en France", Radio Nationale, Paris 1937-1939, (III), p. 149-154

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