George's question roll
Georges Fragerolle (born March 11, 1855 in Paris , † February 19, 1920 in Asnières ) was a French musician and composer .
Georges Fragerolle was born the son of respected merchants and tapestry dealers . First he attended the Collège Rollin and did the bachelier des lettres there at the age of 17 . He graduated with a law degree when he was just over 20 years old. Against his parents' wishes, he strove for a career at the opera , but was not accepted at the Paris Conservatory . So he took singing and composition lessons from well-known artists. Ernest Guiraud taught him from 1880 to 1882 . During this time he joined the Les Hydropathes , a Parisian literary association. A little later he moved out of his parents' home and settled in Asnières.
He set texts by contemporary poets such as Jean Richepin to music . Question Roll was known to play the piano and sing along with it. He became the main pianist in Chat Noir alongside Erik Satie . Most of the shadow theater pieces in Chat Noir can be traced back to him, most of which he staged with Henry Rivière . With Rivière, for example, Fragerolle produced the nativity play La Marche à l'Étoile in 1890 . Question Roll also set Si vous voulez Madame by Émile Goudeau or Vous ressemblez à ma jeunesse by Sully Prudhomme to music .
Work (selection)
- L'Aigle , a Napoleonic piece, with 12 songs, 22 pictures and 11 acts, composition and text: Georges Fragerolle, set design: Courboin.
- Le Roi des gueux , a medieval piece with 12 songs, composition and text: Georges Fragerolle, set design: Courboin.
- La Coupe de Gyptis , a historical piece, with 8 songs, text: Desveaux-Vérité, composition: Georges Fragerolle, set design: H. Callot.
- Marquise , a historical fantasy, with 5 songs, 5 pictures and acts, composition and text: Georges Fragerolle, set design: Henri Boureau.
- La Colère d'Hérode, a very nice piece about naturalness, with 8 songs, 10 pictures and 8 acts, composition and text: Georges Fragerolle, set design: H. Callot.
- Les Martyrs , with 8 songs, 12 pictures and 5 acts, composition: Georges Fragerolle, set design: Amédéa Vignola.
- L'Épopée chrétienne , with 12 songs, composition: Georges Fragerolle, set design: Amédéa Vignola.
- Le Sphinx A lyrical piece in 6 pictures, composition and text: Georges Fragerolle, silhouette and set: Amédée Vignola.
- L'Enfant prodigue A biblical parable in 6 pictures, composition and text: Georges Fragerolle, stage design: Henri Rivière .
- La Pierre qui chante , piece in 10 pictures, composition and text: Georges Fragerolle, set design: Louis Martin (1905/1911),
- La Marche à l'Étoile Mystery play, one act with 6 pictures, composition and text: Georges Fragerolle, stage design: Henri Rivière.
- Le Juif -Errant , legend in 8 pictures, composition and text: Georges Fragerolle, set design: Henri Rivière.
literature
- Horace Valbel: Les chansonniers et les cabarets artistiques , Paris: Dentu, pp. 99–111
Web links
- Information on Georges question roll in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Horace Valbel: Les chansonniers et les cabarets artistiques : Georges Fragerolle, digitized version , accessed on October 9, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Question roll, Georges |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 19, 1920 |
| Place of death | Asnières-sur-Seine |