Jules Mazellier

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Jules Mazellier (born April 6, 1879 in Toulouse , † February 6, 1959 in Paris ) was a French composer and conductor.

Mazellier studied composition with Charles Lenepveu at the Paris Conservatory . In 1909 he won the Prix ​​de Rome for his composition La Roussalka . This was preceded by a "duel" with Nadia Boulanger , who had applied for the prize that same year with a setting of the same text. Mazellier later taught at the Conservatoire de Paris as a professor. In addition to chamber music works, piano pieces and songs, he composed several operas.

Works

  • La Roussalka , Lègende russe in one act, 1909
  • Graciella , comic opera, 1925
  • Les Matines d'Amour , Opera, 1927
  • 500 Dictées musicales à une, deux, trois et quatre voix in four volumes
  • Fantaisie-Ballet for clarinet and piano
  • Contemplation for violin and piano
  • Le Livre Chantant
  • Ballad for violin and piano
  • Berceuse for violin and piano
  • Chanson for violoncello and piano
  • Fileuse for violoncello and piano
  • Prière de Saint-François d'Assise for voice, violin, violoncello and organ
  • Poème Romantique for violin and piano
  • Complainte pour Noel for piano
  • Nocturne for piano
  • Bercelonette for piano
  • Divertissement Pastoral for flute and piano

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Caroline Potter: Nadia and Lili Boulanger. Ashgate Publishing, 2007, ISBN 9780754681649 , p. 56 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  2. ^ Prix ​​de Rome 1900-1909
  3. ↑ Journal of the American Musicological Society , Volume 51, 1998, p. 122 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  4. ↑ http://www.vcisinc.com/clarinetmusicpiano.htm
personal data
SURNAME Mazellier, Jules
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Toulouse
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1959
Place of death Paris