Émile Paladilhe
Émile Paladilhe (born June 3, 1844 in Montpellier , † January 6, 1926 in Rouen ) was a French composer and pianist.
Paladilhe, the son of a doctor interested in music, had early childhood lessons from Dom Sébastien Boixet, the organist of the Montpellier Cathedral . He turned out to be highly gifted, so Boixet recommended sending him to the Conservatoire de Paris when he was ten years old . The family moved with him to Paris, and he studied piano with Antoine François Marmontel , organ with François Benoist and piano with Jacques Fromental Halévy at the Conservatoire . At the age of fifteen, he gave piano concertos in the Salle Henri-Herz in Paris and in 1860 was the youngest winner of the Premier Grand Prix de Rome in the history of the award he was about to winAdolphe Deslandres and Isidore Legouix for the cantata Ivan IV .
After his three-year stay at the Villa Medici in Rome, which is associated with the award, Paladilhe made a career as an opera composer in Paris. In 1872 the opera Le Passant was premiered at the Opéra-Comique . After several comic operas, Patrie became his most successful work, based on a libretto by Victorien Sardou and Louis Gallet .
Paladilhe was also an important composer of church music, the most important of which is the oratorio Les Saintes-Marie de la Mer, based on a poem by Louis Gallet. It was premiered in Montpellier in 1892 under the direction of François Borne . His Mass de St François d'Assise premiered in 1896 at the Church of St. Eustache .
Furthermore, Paladilhe composed a symphony, other orchestral and instrumental works as well as numerous piano pieces.
He was married to Georgina, the granddaughter of the writer Ernest Legouvé . Her son Jean Paladilhe worked for sixty years as a curator at the Musée Gustave Moreau in Paris, whose son Dominique Paladilhe became known as a writer of historical novels.
Works
- 1ère Messe solennelle for four voices and double choir, 1857
- 2nd fair solennelle à St-François d'Assise , 1861
- L'Amour Africain , comic opera in two acts (libretto by E. Legouvé), 1875
- Suzanne , comic opera in three acts, 1878
- Diana , comic opera in three acts, 1885
- Patrie , drama lyrique in five acts, 1886
- Vanina , Opera in four acts, 1890
- Les Saintes-Maries de la Mer , 1892
- 3rd fair solennelle de Pentecôte , 1898
- Stabat mater , 1903
- Kyrie et Gloria for two voices, 1904
- Marche de Fête for orchestra, 1904
- Hymn au Christ , 1906
literature
- Denis Havard de la Montagne: Émile Paladilhe - biography and catalog raisonné. In: Musica et Memoria. (French).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Paladilhe, Émile |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer and pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montpellier |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 6, 1926 |
| Place of death | Rouen |