Pierre de Bréville

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Pierre de Bréville (left) and Jacques Thibaud , Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Pierre Eugène Onfroy de Bréville (born February 21, 1861 in Bar-le-Duc , † September 23, 1949 in Paris ) was a French composer .

Life

The son of a lawyer completed a law degree in preparation for the diplomatic service, but then decided on a musical career. He studied at the Paris Conservatory with Théodore Dubois and received several prizes from the Société internationale des organistes et maîtres de chapelle for church music from 1883–84 . At the same time his first songs were written.

In 1888 he traveled to the Bayreuth Festival with the singer Maurice Bagès de Trigny . Here he met Vincent d'Indy César Franck and his students Charles Bordes , Ernest Chausson and Henri Duparc , with whom he became friends. He was a pupil of César Franck until his death in 1890.

He then studied with Vincent d'Indy, who brought him to the Schola Cantorum in Paris as a counterpoint teacher in 1898 . He also succeeded d'Indys as President of the Société Nationale de Musique . During the First World War he taught chamber music at the Conservatoire de Paris.

While de Bréville had previously composed mainly songs, orchestral works and operas, from 1915 onwards he increasingly turned to chamber music. It emerged u. a. Sonatas for violin, for viola, for cello and for oboe and piano, a concerto for piano trio and a suite for instrumental ensemble. He also wrote music history and published his memoirs of César Franck between 1935 and 1938 in the Mercure de France .

Works

  • Ave Verum , 1893
  • La Nuit de décembre
  • Stamboul
  • Sans pardon
  • lEros vainqueur , lyrical story
  • La Tête de Kenvarc'h , lyrical scene
  • La Princesse Maleine , opera
  • Le Pays des fées , incidental music
  • Les Sept Princesses , incidental music
  • Sonata for violin and piano, 1918
  • Cantique de Molière , 1924
  • Poème dramatique for cello and piano, 1924
  • Sonatina for oboe and piano, 1925
  • Sonata for violin and piano, 1927
  • Sonata for cello and piano, 1930
  • Fantaisie appassionata for cello and piano, 1934
  • Sonata for violin and piano, 1942
  • Sonata for violin and piano, 1943
  • Concert à Trois for piano trio, 1945
  • Sonata for violin and piano, 1947
  • Suite for instrumental quintet and saxophone quartet

Fonts

  • Histoire du théâtre lyrique en France
  • Les Fioretti du Père Franck (Mercure de France, September 1935 to January 1938)

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personal data
SURNAME Bréville, Pierre de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bréville, Pierre Eugène Onfroy de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Bar-le-Duc
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1949
Place of death Paris