Paul Ladmirault

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P. Ladmirault

Paul Emil Ladmirault (born December 8, 1877 in Nantes , † October 30, 1944 in Camoël ) was a French composer.

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Paul Ladmirault attended the Nantes Conservatory, where he won first prize in harmony at the age of sixteen. In the same year his first opera Gilles de Retz premiered with great success in his hometown .

At the Paris Conservatory he studied counterpoint and fugue with André Gédalge from 1895 and composition with Gabriel Fauré from 1897 to 1904 . He orchestrated works by his teacher and quickly found recognition from his famous colleagues Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy . Through the mediation of the latter, he became a member of the Société Nationale de Musique , which in 1903 performed his Chœur des Âmes de la Forêt .

In 1909 the symphonic poem Brocéliande au Matin was premiered at Le Châtelet under the direction of Gabriel Pierné , which, like the Bretonne Suite from 1903, is based on musical material from his never-performed opera Myrdhin ( Merlin ).

During the First World War, Ladmirault was a soldier for four and a half years, after which he retired to Kerbili en Camoel and from 1920 worked as a professor of harmony, counterpoint and composition at the Nantes Conservatory. At the same time he began writing for Chanteclair magazine as a music critic .

In 1918 he completed the incidental music for Le Roman de Tristan (based on Joseph Bédier ), which was premiered in 1919 in Nice and at the Sarah Bernhardt Theater. In 1920 Rhené-Baton conducted the Rapsodie Gaélique at the Concerts Pasdeloup . Ladmirault campaigned for the cultural autonomy of Brittany and was one of the first composers to become a member of the Seiz Breur group . a. Georges Arnoux and Paul Le Flem .

Ladmirault's greatest success was the performance of his symphonic poem En Forêt by the Paris Symphony Orchestra in 1932 under the direction of Eugène Bigot . The press hailed the composition as his best work. His great string quartet was composed around the same time.

In 1933 he composed seven piano pieces under the title Les mémoires d'une âne , and shortly afterwards wrote a violin sonata which he dedicated to his friend Georges Enesco ; this premiered in 1934. He dedicated further sonatas to two colleagues at the Nantes Conservatory: the cellist Robert Laffra and the clarinetist Victor Graf .

After turning to Christianity, Ladmiral composed his only significant church music work, the Missa breve, on the occasion of the ordination of his son Daniel at the age of sixty .

Works

  • Gilles de Retz , Opera, 1893
  • Valse triste pour piano et orchester , 1901
  • Suite bretonne , 1903
  • Suite bretonne , 1905
  • Brocéliande au matin , symphonic poem, 1909
  • Rapsodie Gaélique , 1909
  • En Forêt , symphonic poem, 1913
  • La Prêtresse de Korydwenn , ballet, 1917
  • Myrdhin , Opera, 1921
  • La Brière , symphonic poem, 1925
  • Glycères , Operetta, 1928
  • Tristan et Iseult , incidental music, 1929
  • Sonata pour violon et piano , 1931
  • Quintets à cordes , 1933
  • Quatuor à cordes 1933
  • Sonate pour violoncelle et piano , 1939
  • Messe brève pour chœur et orgue , 1939
  • Sonata pour clarinette et piano , 1942
  • La Jeunesse de Cervantès for orchestra
  • Symphony en Ut

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personal data
SURNAME Ladmirault, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ladmirault, Paul Emil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Nantes
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1944
Place of death Camoël