Georges Marty
Georges-Eugène Marty (* 1860 in Paris ; † 1908 ) was a French composer and conductor .
Marty studied composition at the Conservatoire de Paris with Jules Massenet and Théodore Dubois and in 1882 won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome alongside Gabriel Pierné . After the stay at the Villa Medici in Rome, which was associated with the award, he traveled with Pierné, with whom he remained lifelong friends, through Germany, where he visited Franz Liszt and Carl Reinecke, among others .
After Joseph Heyberger's death in 1892 he was temporarily choirmaster of the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire , then he became chef de chant at the Paris Opera , and in 1900 he moved to the Opéra-Comique . He led the first class for vocal ensemble at the Conservatoire de Paris and then became a professor of harmony.
From 1901 to 1908 he succeeded Paul Taffanel as chief conductor of the Orchester de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire , and from 1905 he was also director of the Fondation Beaulieu . As head of the Société des Concerts, he performed the great oratorios and operas of the Baroque era (including the St. John Passion , Magnificat and Christmas Oratorio by Bach and Saul von Handel , also reconstructed works by Rameau ), but also Haydn's Creation and Seasons , Mozart's Requiem , and Saint-Saëns ' La Lyre et la Harpe and Francks Les Béatitudes . Over the years works by Richard Wagner (Siegfried Idyll), Edvard Grieg (Holberg Suite), Johannes Brahms (piano concerto) and Gabriel Fauré (Pavane) have been added.
Soloists such as Ricardo Viñes , Édouard Risler , Alfred Cortot , Jacques Thibaud and Pablo Casals performed under his direction . In 1908 Marguerite Long played Fauré's ballad here for the first time, a work that she performed with the Société des Concerts in the 1950s.
Marty's compositional work stepped back from his activity as a conductor after 1900. Of his works, the overture to the opera Balthazar and Les Saisons , an orchestral suite with choirs, and clarinet pieces composed for the Conservatoire competitions are still frequently performed .
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| SURNAME | Marty, Georges |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Marty, Georges-Eugène (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1908 |