Armand Marsick

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Armand Marsick

Armand Marsick (born September 20, 1877 in Liège , † April 30, 1959 in Haine-Saint-Paul (today La Louvière )) was a Belgian violinist, composer and conductor.

Life

Like his father Louis Marsick (1843–1901) and his uncle Martin Marsick , Armand Marsick first learned to play the violin, he was a student of Désiré Heynberg (1831–1897). He studied at the Liège Conservatory with Sylvain Dupuis and Jean-Théodore Radoux . In 1897 he went to Nancy , where he became first violinist in the theater and orchestra of the conservatory and took composition lessons with Guy Ropartz . In addition to his career as a violin virtuoso, he completed his composition training in Paris with the composers Vincent d'Indy and Gabriel Pierné, who were influenced by César Franck . There he became concertmaster of the Colonne Concerts and first violinist of the Opéra-Comique .

In 1908 he moved to Athens , where he became professor of composition and director of the orchestra at the Athens Conservatory . Because of the Greco-Turkish War , Marsick left Greece and went to Bilbao , where he lived until 1927. There he became the first director of the newly founded conservatory in 1922 and founded the symphony orchestra. In 1927 he returned to Liège and worked until his retirement in 1942 at the Royal Conservatory as a professor of harmony. He founded the “ Association des concerts populairees liégeois ”, which he was in charge of until 1939.

His son Paul-Louis Marsick (1916–1969) was a musicologist, cellist and professor of harmony at the Royal Conservatory in Mons .

Works

  • 3 violin concertos (lost)
  • Pensée Religieuse , 1894
  • Adagio Pathétique for violin and orchestra, 1895
  • A la science, Cantate à deux voix pour filles et garçons , 1896
  • Sonata for violin and piano , 1900
  • Stèle Funéraire , 1902
  • Scènes de montagnes , 1902
  • La Jane , lyric drama, 1903
  • Improvisation et Final for cello and orchestra, 1904
  • Ismaïl , Opera, 1906
  • La Source , 1908
  • Chanson de Cybélia for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, 1908
  • Poème Nuptial , 1910
  • Tableaux Grecs , 1912
  • Quatre pièces for piano, 1912
  • Lara , Opera, 1914
  • L'anneau Nuptial , lyric drama, 1915–24
  • Cadence et Danse orientale , 1929
  • Tableaux de voyage , 1937
  • Loustics en fête , 1939
  • Quatuor pour cors , 1950
  • Trois morceaux symphoniques , 1950

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christophe Pirenne:  Marsick, Armand. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 11 (Lesage - Menuhin). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1121-7  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
personal data
SURNAME Marsick, Armand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marsick, Armand Louis Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian violinist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Liege
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1959
Place of death Haine-Saint-Paul ( La Louvière )