Gustave Samazeuilh
Gustave Samazeuilh (born June 2, 1877 in Bordeaux , † August 4, 1967 in Paris ) was a French composer and music critic.
Samazeuilh first studied law before turning to music. He was then a student of Ernest Chausson , Vincent d'Indy and Charles Bordes at the Schola Cantorum and studied with Paul Dukas . Samazeuilh owned a summer house in Ciboure. There he made the acquaintance of Maurice Ravel , who influenced him stylistically as a composer.
Samazeuilh's compositional work is not extensive. In addition to some vocal and piano works and chamber music, he mainly wrote piano transcriptions of orchestral works by contemporary composers.
He was better known as a translator of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde into French, author of a monograph on his teacher Paul Dukas (1913) and author of a volume of musical memoirs: Musiciens de mon temps: chroniques et souvenirs (1947).
Works
- Suite pour piano , 1902
- Divertissement et Musette for wind and string quartet, 1902
- Petites Inventions for piano, 1903
- Prelude for piano, 1903
- Serenades for guitar, 1903
- String quartet in D minor, 1903
- Naïades au soir for piano, 1910
- Nuit , poem for orchestra, 1910
- Le Chant de la Mer for piano, 1918–19
- Prelude for violin or cello and organ or piano, published 1923
- Esquisses for piano, 1945
- Evocation for piano, 1947
- Deux poèmes for voice and orchestra
- Chant d'espagne
Web links
- Literature by and about Gustave Samazeuilh in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Samazeuilh, Gustave |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer and music critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 2, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bordeaux |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th August 1967 |
| Place of death | Paris |