Alfred Bruneau

Louis Charles Bonaventure Alfred Bruneau ( born March 3 1857 in Paris, † June 15, 1934 ) was a French composer and music critic.

Life and career

Bruneau's father was a violinist, his mother a painter, pupil of Corot. From 1876 to 1879 he studied at the Conservatoire de Paris under Auguste Franchomme Cello and music theory with Augustin Savart, then until 1881 composition with Jules Massenet. In 1881 he won with the cantata Geneviève the Second Grand Prix de Rome.

He became a member of the company founded by Jules Pasdeloup Orchestra and in 1881 the Société des Compositeurs. In 1887 his first opera, Kerim, premiered at the Théâtre Lyrique. A number of other operas created for books by Émile Zola, with the Bruneau had been friends since 1888.

Since 1888 he worked as a proofreader at the music publishing Hartmann. As a music critic, he wrote for the Revue indépendante (1889-1890), the Gil Blas (1892-1895), Le Figaro (1895-1901), the Grande Revue ( 1902) and Matin ( 1904-1907 and 1909-1933 ).

From 1903 to 1904 Bruneau was musical director of the Opéra- Comique. In 1905 he became a member of the Conseil supérieur of the Conservatoire de Paris, 1909 Inspector General for music lessons. In 1925 he became the successor of Gabriel Fauré as a member of the Académie des Beaux -Arts.

Works

  • 2 Morceaux de genre for voice and chamber orchestra, 1878
  • 5 mélodies (text by François Coppée, L. Adrien, G. Chezol ), 1879
  • Mélodies de jeunesse ( Text by Pierre de Ronsard, C. Hugues, Jean Richepin, Paul Bourget, Paul -Armand Silvestre, R. Rousseil, Théophile Gautier ) 1881
  • 2 mélodies pour 1 voix ( text by Henri Lavedan ) 1882-1884
  • 3 mélodies (text by Jean Richepin, Henri Lavedan ) 1882
  • Léda for voice and orchestra ( text by Henri Lavedan ) 1882
  • Héroïque Overture for Orchestra, 1883
  • La Belle au bois dormant for orchestra, 1884
  • Requiem, 1884-88
  • Penthésilée for voice and orchestra (Text Catulle Mendès ) 1884
  • Kerim, opera in three acts ( libretto by Paul Milliet and Henry Lavedan ), 1885-86
  • Nuit de mai for voice and chamber orchestra ( text by Alfred de Musset ), 1886
  • Enoch & Costallat, 1887
  • Les Bacchantes, Ballet, 1888
  • Le Rêve, drame lyrique in four acts ( libretto by Louis Gallet by Émile Zola ), 1890
  • Les song de France (texts of Catulle Mendès ), 1891
  • L' Attaque du moulin, drame lyrique in four acts ( libretto by Louis Gallet by Émile Zola ), 1892-1893
  • 3 song de France (texts of Catulle Mendès ), 1892
  • 6 Chansons à danser (texts of Catulle Mendès ), 1894-1912
  • Messidor, drame lyrique in four acts ( libretto by Émile Zola ), 1894-1896
  • L' Ouragan, drame lyrique in four acts ( libretto by Émile Zola ), 1897-1900,
  • Fantaisie for piano, 1901
  • L' enfant roi, comédie lyrique in five acts ( libretto by Émile Zola ), 1902
  • Lazare, drame lyrique in one act ( his own libretto by Émile Zola ), 1903
  • La Faute de l' abbé Mouret, incidental music to the play by Émile Zola, 1904-05
  • L' enfant roi, comédie lyrique in five acts ( libretto by Émile Zola ), 1905
  • Naïs Micoulin, drame lyrique in two acts ( his own libretto by Émile Zola ), 1906
  • Les Quatre Journées, conte lyrique in four acts ( his own libretto by Émile Zola ), 1908-1916
  • Les Chants de la vie (texts of Saint -Georges de BOUHELIER, Fernand Gregh, Henry Bataille ), 1911-1912
  • L' Amoureuse leçon, 1913
  • Le Jardin du Paris, conte lyrique in four acts ( libretto by Robert de Flers and Gaston Arman de Caillavet after Hans Christian Andersen ), 1913-1921
  • Le tambour for voice and orchestra ( text of Saint -Georges de BOUHELIER ), 1915
  • Le Chant du drapeau for voice and orchestra ( text by Maurice Boukay ), 1915-1916
  • Le Roi Candaule, comédie lyrique in four acts ( libretto by Maurice Donnay ), 1917-1919
  • Le Navire for voice and orchestra ( text by R. Puaux ), 1917
  • Chants antiques (texts by André Chénier ), 1922-1927,
  • Chansons d' enfance et de jeunesse (texts of Marceline Desbordes - Valmore ), 1922-1927
  • Angelo, tyran de Padoue, drame lyrique in five acts ( libretto by Charles Méré after Victor Hugo ), 1927
  • Virginie, comédie lyrique in three acts ( libretto by Henri Duvernois ), 1928-1930
  • Plein air (text by Théophile Gautier ), 1932
  • 2 Chansons ou quatuors vocaux (texts of Marceline Desbordes - Valmore ), 1933

Writings

  • Musiques d' et de demain here ( collected reviews ), Paris 1900
  • La Musique Française, Paris 1901 ( German: history of French music Berlin 1904)
  • Musiques de Russie et musiciens de France, Paris 1903 ( German: The Russian Music, Berlin 1905)
  • La Vie et les oeuvres de Gabriel Fauré, Paris 1925
  • A l' ombre d' un grand coeur ( Émile Zola ), Paris 1932
  • Massenet (Les Grands musiciens par les maîtres d' aujourd'hui (6 ) ), Paris 1935
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