Jacques Chailley

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Jacques Chailley (born March 24, 1910 in Paris , † January 21, 1999 in Montpellier ) was a French musicologist , music teacher and composer .

Live and act

Jacques Chailley - son of pianist Céliny Chailley-Richez and violinist Marcel Chailley - studied harmony with Nadia Boulanger , counterpoint with Claude Delvincourt , music history with Maurice Emmanuel , musicology with André Pirro , organ with Yvonne Rokseth and composition with Henri Busser . In Amsterdam, Chailley studied with the musicologist Albertus Smijers and the conductor of the Concertgebouw orchestra Willem Mengelberg . Chailley became a professor of music history in 1952. From 1952 to 1979 he was director of the Institute for Musicology at the Sorbonne and from 1962 to 1982 director of the Schola Cantorum . He also worked as inspector general for music at the Ministry of Culture.

His catalog raisonné includes around one hundred and thirty titles, including an opera , a ballet , theatrical music, songs and choral pieces, suites, sonatas, organ pieces and chamber music works. Jacques Chailley published musicological writings in which he also devoted himself to the study of music as a tonal language and the revival of music from the Middle Ages .

Awards

Fonts

French editions

  • Théorie de la Musique.
  • Petite histoire de la chanson popular francais.
  • Histoire musicale du Moyan Age. Presses Universitaires de France, Paris 1950
  • Les passions de JS Bach.
  • Cours d'histoire de la musique. Leduc, 1973

German editions

  • The music and its signs. Volume 14 of the series Illustrated History of Music. Editions Rencontre, Lausanne a. Ex libris, Zurich 1967
  • History of ballet. Vol. 15 of the series Illustrated History of Music. Editions Rencontre, Lausanne a. Ex libris, Zurich 1967
  • Harmony and counterpoint. Vol. 16 of the series Illustrated History of Music. Editions Rencontre, Lausanne a. Ex libris, Zurich 1967

Works (selection)

piano

  • Suite Le Jardin nuptial (1947)
  • Sonata breve (1965)
  • Ballade romantique (1989)
  • numerous pieces for children (two and four hands)

organ

  • Triptyque (1984-87)
  • L'Annonciation (1984-87)
  • Paraphrases liturgiques (1984-87)

Chamber music

  • String Quartet (1939)
  • Sonata for viola and piano (1939–41)
  • Suite Enfantine for wind quintet (1976)
  • Sonata for violin solo (1987)

orchestra

  • Symphony in G minor (1942–47)
  • 2nd symphony (1984)
  • Cantabile for strings (1971)
  • Mors est Rolanz for wind instruments (1975)
  • Solmisation for strings (1977)

Singing and piano

  • Song cycles:
    • Le pèlerin d'Assise (1932–42)
    • A ma femme (1949–54)
    • Poèmes sur la mort (1982)
    • 7 Chansons légères (1983)
    • Le Chien à la mandoline (1987)
  • numerous individual songs, including:
    • Le Menuisier du Roi (1945, M. Fombeure)
    • Plainte de Rachel
  • Cantique du soleil (with 4 Ondes Martenot, also for orchestra; 1934)

A cappella choir

  • L'Arbre de paradis (1933, L. Chancerel)
  • La Tentation de saint Antoine (1936; Instr. Ad libitum)
  • Chant de la fidélité (1946)
  • Kyrie des gueux (1946)
  • Missa Solemnis (1947)
  • Aux Morts pour la patrie (1953, V. Hugo)
  • Fair brève de angelis (1955)
  • Orbis factor fair (1959)
  • Demeure le secret (1962, M. Pol-Fouchet; double choir)
  • Fables de mon jardin (1961, G. Duhamel)
  • numerous motets, some with organ
  • numerous folk song arrangements

Vocals and instruments

  • Exercices de style (1965, R. Queneau)
  • 7 Fantaisies for equal voices and piano
  • Les Grandes Heures de Reims (1938; speaker, vocals and orchestra)
  • Jeanne devant Reims (1941; choir and orchestra)
  • Le Cimetière marin (1980; choir and orchestra)

Oratorio

  • Casa Dei (1991, Y. Hucher)
  • Eloge de la Sagesse (1992)

Opera

  • Pan et la Syrinx (1946)
  • Le Jeu de Robin and Marion (1950)
  • Thyl de Flandre (1949-54)

ballet

  • La Dame la licorne (1953)

Incidental music

  • Les Perses (1936)
  • Antigone (1939),
  • Agamemnon (1947)
  • La Belle au Bois (1951)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Brockhaus: Music. Mannheim u. Leipzig 2006, Lemma Jacques Chailley.
  2. ^ Inscription Deutschordenshof, Singerstraße: Jacques Chailley 1969 (accessed June 10, 2014)

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Chailley, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French musicologist, music teacher and composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1999
Place of death Montpellier