Georges Truc
Georges Ernest Truc (born December 16, 1893 in Colombes , † January 6, 1941 in Paris ) was a French pianist, conductor and music producer.
Life
The son of a musician at the Paris Opera, he took piano lessons from Louis Diémer . Truc worked in the 1930s as the musical director of the Columbia Records record label . A number of important recordings of him as a conductor have survived: in 1927 he made the first complete recording of Camille Saint-Saëns ' Carnival of the Animals with the Paris Symphony Orchestra and the soloists Joseph Fauré (cello) and Marcel Moyse (flute) .
The following year a recording was made with excerpts from Claude Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande with Hector Dufranne and Marthe Nespoulous in the title roles and Claire Croiza as Geneviève. In 1929 he finally made a complete recording of Maurice Ravel's one-act opera L'Heure Espagnole .
For 1941 Truc prepared a complete recording of Pelléas et Mélisande with Irène Joachim , the granddaughter of the violinist Joseph Joachim , and Jacques Jansen , whose direction Roger Désormière took over after his death . In addition, Truc has received a number of single recordings with individual opera arias, such as Nessun dorma and Non piangere, Liù from Giacomo Puccini's Turandot with the tenor Georges Thill , Voi che sapete and Non so più cosa son from Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro with Marcelle Denya and A girl or a woman from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte with Fred Bordon .
In 1932 he married the pianist Lucette Descaves in his second marriage .
Web links
- Discography at Allmusic
- Georges Truc in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Truc, Georges |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Truc, Georges Ernest |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Colombes |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 6, 1941 |
| Place of death | Paris |