Paule Maurice
Paule Charlotte Marie Jeanne Maurice (born September 29, 1910 in Paris , † August 18, 1967 there ) was a French composer.
Maurice studied counterpoint, fugue and harmony with Jean and Noël Gallon and composition with Henri Busser at the Conservatoire de Paris . In 1939 she received the first prize in the field of composition. From 1933 to 1947 she was Jean Gallon's assistant. Since 1965 she was Professor of Harmony Analysis at the École Normale de Musique .
Maurice's best-known work is the Tableaux de Provence suite for saxophone and orchestra from 1948–1955 , which she dedicated to the saxophonist Marcel Mule . The work was premiered in 1958 by Jean-Marie Londeix and the Orchester Symphonique Brestois under the direction of her husband Pierre Lantier . Furthermore she composed a. a. a piano concerto, a suite for flute quartet and the ballet Cosmorama . Together with her husband, she published the Complément du Traité d'Harmonie de Reber , a supplement to the standard work on harmony by Napoléon-Henri Reber from 1862.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Paule Maurice . In: Jean-Pierre Thiollet : Sax , Mule & Co , Milon-La Chapelle, H & D, 2004, p. 151. ISBN 2 914 266 03 0
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| SURNAME | Maurice, Paule |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Maurice, Paule Charlotte Marie Jeanne (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 29, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | 18th August 1967 |
| Place of death | Paris |