Hélène Fleury-Roy

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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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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