Jacques de la Presle
Jacques Guillaume de Sauville de la Presle (born July 5, 1888 in Versailles , † May 6, 1969 in Paris ) was a French composer and music teacher .
Life
De la Presle was a student of Paul Fauchet at the Versailles Conservatory before entering the Paris Conservatory on the recommendation of Paul Taffanel , a family friend and conductor at the Versailles Opera . There he studied harmony with Antoine Taudou , counterpoint with Georges Caussade and composition with Paul Vidal . At the same time he succeeded his teacher Fauchet as organist at the Notre-Dame church in Versailles.
The outbreak of the First World War interrupted his musical training. From the beginning of the war, De la Presle was deployed as a medical soldier at the front, including several times at Versailles. With other conservatory graduates, including André Caplet , Georges Jouatte , Maurice Maréchal and René Dorin , he founded an orchestra with which he performed great works such as Gustave Charpentier's Impressions d'Italie . Three months before the end of the war, he was gas poisoned and hovered between life and death in the military hospital for seven months.
After the war he resumed his studies with Vidal and in 1921 won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata Hermione . The three-part oratorio L'Apocalypse de saint Jean was created during the stay at the Villa Medici in Rome, which was associated with the award .
After his return to Paris in 1925, de la Presle taught at the Paris Conservatory, where he was professor of harmony from 1937 to 1958. His students included Maurice Jarre and Antoine Duhamel , the Canadian pianist and composer André Mathieu and the French pianist Agnelle Bundervoët , for whom he composed Thème et Variations and the Concerto en ré .
In addition, de la Presle was artistic director at Radio-Paris from 1930 and from 1943 at Radiodiffusion national and from 1945 to 1952 general inspector for music education. His numerous compositions include orchestral works, pieces for chamber music and for solo instruments, an operetta, many songs and several chansons that he wrote for the singer René Dorin.
Works
- Première pensée for piano, 1900
- Première sonate for piano, 1901
- Sadness !! for piano, 1903
- Boléro espagnol for piano, 1904
- Elégie for piano and violin, 1905
- Prière du marin, for four voices, cello, two violins and piano, 1908
- Impromptu for piano, 1910
- Scherzo for piano and violin, 1912
- Chant triste for piano and violoncello, 1912
- Prière for organ, 1912
- Alma mater for organ, 1913
- A l'aube for soloists, choir and orchestra, 1915
- Le jardin mouillé for harp, 1913
- Soir de bataille , symphonic painting for orchestra, 1914–18
- Solo de violon , 1917
- Suite en sol for string quartet, 1919
- Le sphinx for voice and orchestra, 1919
- Don Juan , cantata for choir and orchestra, 1920
- Hermione , cantata for three solo voices and orchestra, 1921
- Sonata for piano and violin, 1921
- Offertoire pour le dimanche de Pâques for organ and string orchestra, 1921
- Chanson intimate for piano and orchestra, 1922
- Chanson intime for piano and violin, 1922
- Extrême Orient for piano and orchestra, 1924
- L'église de village for piano and orchestra, 1924
- Berceuse for piano, 1929
- 2 chœurs de printemps: avril, juin for mixed choir, strings and piano, 1929
- Parade fantasque for piano, 1930
- Petite berceuse for piano, 1930
- Orientale for piano and bassoon, 1930
- Album d'images , symphonic suite, 1931
- Album d'images for piano, 1931
- Pièce de concert for piano and violoncello, 1932
- Scherzetto for piano and horn, 1935
- Aria et Gigue for orchestra, 1940
- Thème et Variations for piano, 1944
- Petite Suite en fa for piano and bassoon, 1944
- Le rêve d'un jeune faon for piano and horn, 1949
- Concerto en ré for piano and orchestra, 1950
- Impressions provençales for piano and orchestra, 1958
- Les demoiselles de tabarin for piano, 1959
- Petite chanson pour la poupée for piano, 1961
- Suite en sol for double bass
- Menuet pittoresque for flute
- Apocalypse de saint Jean , oratorio in three parts for four soloists, two mixed choirs and orchestra, 1929
- Impressions for voice and orchestra
- Le vent for voice and orchestra
- Marche nuptiale for voice, two violins, viola, cello and piano
- Toinon , operetta in one act
Web links
- Denis Havard de la Montagne: de Presle's curriculum vitae on the Musica et Memoria website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | La Presle, Jacques de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | La Presle, Jacques Guillaume de Sauville de (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 5, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Versailles |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 6, 1969 |
| Place of death | Paris |