Hélène Fleury-Roy
Hélène-Gabrielle Fleury-Roy (born June 21, 1876 in Carlepont , Oise department ; † April 18, 1957 in Saint-Gaudens , Haute-Garonne department ) was a French composer and the first woman to compete for the Prix de Rome won an award.
The pupil of Henri Dallier , Charles-Marie Widor and André Gedalge won the Second Second Grand Prix de Rome in 1904 with the cantata Medora after Édouard Adenis . In 1928 she took over the harmony class from Georges Guiraud, who died that year, at the Toulouse Conservatory, where she taught until 1945. As a professor for piano and composition, she taught a. a. the conductor Louis Auriacombe , the violinist Pierre Doukan and the composer Charles Chaynes .
Fleury-Roy composed a. a. Songs, piano, violin, cello and organ pieces and a piano quartet. In 1906 the Grande Fantaisie de concert dedicated to Théophile Laforge was created .
She was married to Louis Roy (1882-1959), professor of mechanics at the University of Toulouse.
Works
- Arabesque for piano
- Bourrée Gavotte for piano
- Canzonetta for piano
- Espérance for piano
- Fleur des champs for piano
- La Nuit for piano
- Minuetto for piano
- Valse Caprice for piano
- Cœur virginal , song
- Mattutina , song
- Brise du soir for violin
- Trois pièces faciles for violin
- Fantaisie for viola (or violin) and piano, op.18
- Rêverie for cello
- Quatuor for piano and strings
- Pastoral for organ
- Grand Fantaise de concert
Web links
- Prix de Rome 1900–1909 , Musica et Memoria website (French)
- Sheet music and audio files by Hélène Fleury-Roy in the International Music Score Library Project
Individual evidence
- ↑ Qui êtes-vous? Annuaire des contemporains; notices biographiques. Luffy, Paris 1924, p. 676 ( limited preview in Google book search).
personal data | |
---|---|
SURNAME | Fleury-Roy, Hélène |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fleury-Roy, Hélène-Gabrielle (full name); Fleury, Hélène (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 21, 1876 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Carlepont , Oise department |
DATE OF DEATH | April 18, 1957 |
Place of death | Saint-Gaudens , Haute-Garonne department |