Marcelle Gerar

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Marcelle Gerar , pseudonym of Marcelle Regerau , (born June 26, 1891 in Brussels ; † 1970 ) was a French singer (soprano) and interpreter of classical music of the first half of the 20th century.

Life

Marcelle Regerau was a. a. trained with the soprano Ninon Vallin (1886–1961). She began her career after the end of the First World War and devoted herself to concert and lieder singing, primarily contemporary French music. Arthur Honegger , Jacques Ibert , Darius Milhaud , Albert Roussel and Florent Schmitt dedicated song compositions to her. In 1923 she met Maurice Ravel , who composed Ronsard à son âme for her , which they premiered together on April 26, 1924 at the Aeolian Hall in London . Ravel repeatedly accompanied her on the piano and performed with her in Spain.

Gerar worked as a singing professor at the École Normale de Musique de Paris . After Ravel's death she edited a collection of his letters.

The Dutch composer Rudolf Escher (1912–1980) dedicated the Air pour charmer un lézard to her in 1953 as a reminder of a visit to Ravel's residence in Montfort-l'Amaury in 1950.

In 1920 Gerar married the French puppeteer Marcel Temporal , with whom she had three children.

Works (selection)

Sound recordings
  • Chansons françaises du 16e siècle . Shellac record. L 'Anthologie Sonore (LC 0064)
  • Tristan Klingsor, Maurice Ravel: Shéhérazade (1903). Shellac record. Cie Française du Gramophone, Nogent s / M, Seine, France 1929
Fonts
  • A la recherche du chant perdu . Preface by Reynaldo Hahn . Paris: A. Leduc 1938
  • Ravel au miroir de ses lettres, correspondance réunie par Marcelle Gerar et René Chalupt . Paris: R. Laffont 1956

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marcelle Gerar (1891-1970): pseudonyms individuel , in Bibliothèque nationale de France . ISNI 0000 0000 7973 3848
  2. ^ Ninon Vallin, with Karl Josef Kutsch; Leo Riemens: Großes Sängerlexikon , Berlin 2000, pp. 24810–24813.
  3. ↑ a b c d Marcelle Gerar, with Karl Josef Kutsch; Leo Riemens: Großes Sängerlexikon , Berlin 2000, p. 8762
  4. ↑ Arbie Orenstein: Maurice Ravel, Life and Work , 1978, p 123
  5. ^ Ronsard à son âme. Voix, piano, O 75 (1923)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at bnf@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / data.bnf.fr  
  6. ↑ Arbie Orenstein: Maurice Ravel, Life and Work , 1978, p 94; P. 258
  7. ↑ Air pour charmer un Lezard ( Memento of the original dated April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at Broekmans @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.broekmans.com
  8. ^ Temporal (Marcel, Alphonse). In: Who's who in France 1959–1960: Dictionnaire biographique paraissant tous les deux ans (France - Communautés et Français de l'Étranger). 4th edition. J. Lafitte, Paris 1959.
personal data
SURNAME Gerar, Marcelle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Regerau, Marcelle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH 1970