Alfred Bruneau

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Alfred Bruneau

Louis Charles Bonaventure Alfred Bruneau (born March 3, 1857 in Paris , † June 15, 1934 ibid) was a French composer and music critic .

life and career

Bruneau's father was a violinist, his mother a painter, Corot's student . From 1876 to 1879 he studied cello at the Conservatoire de Paris with Auguste Franchomme and music theory with Augustin Savard , then until 1881 composition with Jules Massenet . In 1881 he won the Second Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata Geneviève .

He became a member of the orchestra founded by Jules Pasdeloup and in 1881 of the Société des compositeurs . In 1887 his first opera, Kérim , premiered at the Théâtre-Lyrique . A number of other operas were based on books by Émile Zola , with whom Bruneau had been friends since 1888.

From 1888 he worked as a proofreader for the music publishing house Hartmann. As a music critic, he wrote for the Revue indépendante (1889–1890), the Gil Blas (1892–1895), the Figaro (1895–1901), the Grande Revue (1902) and the Matin (1904–1907 and 1909–1933).

From 1903 to 1904 Bruneau was musical director of the Opéra-Comique . In 1905 he became a member of the Conseil supérieur des Conservatoire de Paris, in 1909 inspector general for music lessons. In 1925 he succeeded Gabriel Fauré as a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts .

Works

  • 2 Morceaux de genre for voice and chamber orchestra, 1878
  • 5 Mélodies (texts by François Coppée , L. Adrien, G. Chezol), 1879
  • Mélodies de jeunesse (texts by Pierre de Ronsard , C. Hugues, Jean Richepin , Paul Bourget , Paul-Armand Silvestre , R. Rousseil, Théophile Gautier ) 1881
  • 2 Mélodies pour 1 voix (text by Henri Lavedan ) 1882–1884
  • 3 Mélodies (texts by Jean Richepin, Henri Lavedan) 1882
  • Léda for voice and orchestra (text by Henri Lavedan) 1882
  • Héroïque overture for orchestra, 1883
  • La Belle au bois dormant for orchestra, 1884
  • Requiem , 1884-88
  • Penthésilée for voice and orchestra (text by Catulle Mendès ) 1884
  • Kérim , opera in three acts (libretto by Paul Milliet and Henry Lavedan), 1885–86
  • Nuit de mai for voice and chamber orchestra (text by Alfred de Musset ), 1886
  • Enoch & Costallat , 1887
  • Les Bacchantes , ballet, 1888
  • Le Rêve , drame lyrique in four acts (libretto by Louis Gallet after Émile Zola), 1890
  • Les Lieds de France (texts by Catulle Mendès ), 1891
  • L'Attaque du moulin , drame lyrique in four acts (libretto by Louis Gallet after Émile Zola), 1892-1893,
  • 3 Lieds de France (texts by Catulle Mendès), 1892
  • 6 chansons à danser (texts by Catulle Mendès), 1894–1912
  • Messidor , drame lyrique in four acts (libretto by Émile Zola), 1894–1896
  • L'Ouragan , drame lyrique in four acts (libretto by Émile Zola), 1897–1900,
  • Fantaisie for piano, 1901
  • L'Enfant roi , comédie lyrique in five acts (libretto by Émile Zola), 1902
  • Lazare , drame lyrique in one act (own libretto based on Émile Zola), 1903
  • La Faute de l'abbé Mouret , incidental music for the play by Émile Zola, 1904–05
  • L'Enfant roi , comédie lyrique in five acts (libretto by Émile Zola), 1905
  • Naïs Micoulin , drame lyrique in two acts (own libretto based on Émile Zola), 1906
  • Les Quatre Journées , conte lyrique in four acts (own libretto based on Émile Zola), 1908–1916
  • Les Chants de la vie (texts by Saint-Georges de Bouhélier , Fernand Gregh , Henry Bataille ), 1911–1912
  • L'Amoureuse leçon , 1913
  • Le Jardin du Paris , conte lyrique in four acts (libretto by Robert de Flers and Gaston Arman de Caillavet after Hans Christian Andersen ), 1913–1921
  • Le tambour for voice and orchestra (text by Saint-Georges de Bouhélier ), 1915
  • Le Chant du drapeau for voice and orchestra (text by Maurice Boukay ), 1915–1916
  • Le Roi Candaule , comédie lyrique in four acts (libretto by Maurice Donnay ), 1917–1919
  • Le Navire for voice and orchestra (text by R. Puaux), 1917
  • Chants antiques (texts by André Chénier ), 1922–1927,
  • Chansons d'enfance et de jeunesse (texts by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore ), 1922–1927
  • Angelo, tyran de Padoue , drame lyrique in five acts (libretto by Charles Méré based on Victor Hugo), 1927
  • Virginie , comédie lyrique in three acts (libretto by Henri Duvernois ), 1928–1930
  • Plein air (texts by Théophile Gautier), 1932
  • 2 Chansons ou quatuors vocaux (texts by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore), 1933

Fonts

  • Musiques d'hier et de demain (collected reviews), Paris 1900
  • La Musique française , Paris 1901 (German: History of French Music Berlin 1904)
  • Musiques de Russie et musiciens de France , Paris 1903 (German: The Russian Music , Berlin 1905)
  • La Vie et les œvres de Gabriel Fauré , Paris 1925
  • A l'ombre d'un grand cœur (Émile Zola) , Paris 1932
  • Massenet ( Les Grands musiciens par les maîtres d'aujourd'hui (6) ), Paris 1935

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personal data
SURNAME Bruneau, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bruneau, Louis Charles Bonaventure Alfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French composer and music critic
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1934
Place of death Paris , France