André Bloch (composer)

André Bloch ( born January 14, 1873 in Wissembourg; † August 7, 1960 in Paris) was a French composer.

Bloch studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Ernest Guiraud and Jules Massenet. In 1893, he won with the cantata Antigone on a text by Ferdinand Beissier the first Premier Grand Prix de Rome.

After connected to the price stay at the Villa Medici in Rome, he taught from 1898 harmony at the Conservatoire de Paris, where his most important pupil Jehan Alain was. Later he also taught at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau. Among his private pupils was the composer Fernand Oubradous.

Bloch was primarily known as an opera composer. His first opera premiered Maïda in 1909, his last, in 1939 created the comic opera Guignol was premiered in 1949 at the Opéra -Comique. For a performance of Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann unfinished Bloch created a part of the instrumentation. He also composed symphonic works and ballets, chamber music, piano works and songs.

Works

  • Antigone cantata by Ferdinand Beissier, 1893
  • Femina country, Ballet, 1904
  • Maïda, opera, 1909
  • Une nuit de Noël, opera ( " conte bleu" ), 1922
  • Brocéliande, opera, 1925
  • Kaa, symphonic poem based on an episode from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, UA 1933 at the Concerts Colonne
  • Au Béguinage symphonic poem, 1931, UA 1956 at the Théâtre des Champs- Elysées with the Orchestre des Concerts du Conservatoirepar under Josef Krips
  • Guignol, opera buffa by Justin Godard and Henri Fabert, 1939, UA 1949 at the Opéra -Comique
  • Denneriana for piano and clarinet, 1940
  • L' Isle nostalgique, symphonic poem, 1945
  • Variée Fantaisie for piano and bassoon, 1946
  • Concerto -ballet for piano and orchestra, 1947
  • Palestinienne Suite for Violoncello and Orchestra, 1948
  • Les Maisons de l' éternité, croquis d'orient for Violoncello and Orchestra, 1950
  • Petite suite dominicale for small orchestra
  • Air à danser for Piano
  • Thème varié, Andantino for Piano
  • Dans la palmeraie for Piano and Flute
  • Goguenardises for piano and bassoon
  • Révélation for two voices a capella
  • Mon père m'a donné un mari, song with piano accompaniment
  • Dans les bois, song with piano accompaniment
  • French composer
  • Born 1873
  • Died in 1960
  • Man
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