Aymé Kunc

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Aymé Kunc (born January 20, 1877 in Toulouse ; † February 13, 1958 there ) was a French composer and piano teacher.

Kunc was born in 1877 as the tenth of twelve children in a family of musicians. His father Aloys Kunc was a church musician and professor at the Conservatory of Toulouse, his mother Henriette Dargein (1841–1928) had studied piano with Louise Farrenc and organ with César Franck at the Conservatoire de Paris . His sisters Germaine, Marie, Catherine and Cécile gave piano lessons, his brother Jean was a music lover and composed some romances. His brother Camille was the conductor of the opera orchestras of Algiers, Nice and Toulon, and Pierre Kunc became known as a composer.

Kunc received his first musical education from his parents. He continued it in the choir of Toulouse Cathedral and later at the city's conservatory before moving to the Conservatoire de Paris in 1895 . Here he was a composition student of Charles Lenepveu . In 1902, after participating in the competition five times, he won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata Alcyone .

During the related stay in the Villa Medici in Rome (1903-07) he became friends with the composers Florent Schmitt and André Caplet and the sculptor Alphonse Terroir , who created a bust of the composer. After his return he settled in Paris. Here he married the singer Paulette Baldocchi and became a conductor at the Apollo Theater ; one of his successors was Alphonse Franck . During this time, at the suggestion of Camille Saint-Saëns, he wrote his only opera Les Esclaves, based on a libretto by Louis Payen .

In 1914, Kunc succeeded Bernard Crocé-Spinelli as director of the Toulouse Conservatory, which he directed for thirty years. He also performed numerous works by contemporary composers as conductor of the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire . A high point of his career was the performance of Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen in 1927 and Parsifal in 1928 at the Théâtre du Capitole . He turned down a position as a conductor at the Paris Opera , which its director Jacques Rouché offered him. In 1949 Kunc was elected a corresponding member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts .

After his death, his estate was donated to the Toulouse Conservatory. In 1996, the Aymé Kunc Association was founded in Toulouse , dedicated to the performance and dissemination of his works.

Works

  • Piano works
    • Joke
    • Simple chansons
  • Organ works
    • Joke
    • Fantaisie symphonique
  • Chamber music
    • Sonata for violin and piano
    • Fantaisie en forme de danse for violin and piano
    • Pastorales for violin and piano
    • Suite symphonique for two cellos and piano
    • Suite flute, cello and piano
    • Trio for violin, cello and piano
    • Quatuor avec piano
    • Quatuor à cordes n ° 1 , 1946
    • Quatuor à cordes n ° 2 , 1948
    • Petite Suite for wind quintet
    • Quintets a vent , 1954
    • Scherzetto for wind quintet
    • Asturiana for wind quintet
  • Songs
    • Apaisement
    • Je ne sais pas de fleur
    • Printemps
    • Soleil d'automne
    • Le Voyage
  • Choral works
    • Le Bohémien
    • Chanson pastoral
    • Deux chants folkloriques
    • Chants populaires languedociens
    • Je ne veux plus chanter
    • Noël de la Liberation
    • Le Plus doux chant
  • Cantatas
    • Cantate pour le couronnement de Dante , 1921
    • Hymn des ailes
  • Church music
    • Ave Maria I , motet
    • Ave Maria II , motet
    • Ave Maria III , motet
    • Ave verum I , motet
    • Ave verum II , motet
    • Mass de Sainte Cécile , 1923
    • Psaume CXLVII , 1904-07
  • Ballets
    • Les Armes de Vulcain
    • Les dieux morts
    • Pastoral antique
  • Operas
    • Les Esclaves , 1911
  • Orchestral works
    • Overture de fête , 1904-07
    • Suite dramatique , 1904-07
    • Feuillets d'album
    • Quatre Esquisses méditerranéennes , 1949
    • Prelude et final
    • Fantaisie for piano and orchestra, 1904–07
    • Pensée musicale for harp, choir and orchestra, 1916
    • Quatre Pièces for flute and orchestra
    • Pastorales for violin and orchestra
    • Legend for alto and orchestra, 1931
    • Poème for cello and piano, 1943

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personal data
SURNAME Kunc, Aymé
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French composer, conductor and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Toulouse
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1958
Place of death Toulouse