André Lavagne

André Lavagne ( born July 12, 1913 in Paris, † March 21, 2014 ) was a French composer.

Life

Lavagne had first lessons from his father, the composer Edmond Lavagne. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris piano with Isidore Philipp, counterpoint and fugue with Noël Gallon and composition with Jean Roger- Ducasse. With the cantata L' Anneau du roi on a text by Elise Vollène 1939 he won the First Second Grand Prix de Rome.

In 1935 he became a professor at the Conservatoire de Paris, since 1941, he was inspector for music lessons at the Paris schools. In the following year he became Secretary General of the SACEM ( Société des Auteurs, Compositeurs Éditeurs et de Musique ). As musical director general of the formation houses of the Legion of Honour, he organized major concerts each year from 1964, with him on several occasions assisted François Mitterrand as vice president of the Amis du musée d' honneur de la légion. In addition Lavagne wrote as a music columnist for the Figaro and the magazine Rhône -Alpes.

Since 1928 Lavagne was active as a composer. He composed operas, orchestral works, piano music, choral works and songs and film scores.

Works

  • Concert dans un parc for Piano and Orchestra, 1938
  • Comme ils s'aiment, comic opera, libretto by Marcel Honoré de Balzac's novel Belvianes by Les petites misères de la vie conjugale, 1939
  • Le pauvre juggler, ballet, UA 1940
  • Concerto romantique for Cello and Orchestra, 1942, by Paul Tortelier UA and the Orchestre Lamoureux under Eugène Bigot
  • Kermesse, Ballet after a book by Constantin Tcherkas, 1943
  • Soundtrack to Au pays où l' orange fleurit by Jean Mineur, 1943
  • Soundtrack to fériés nocturnes by Paul de Roubaix, 1943
  • Soundtrack to Les petits tous de la ferme de Marco Gastyne, 1947
  • Valse Caprice for Piano, 1947
  • Soundtrack to Un chien et Madame Marcel Martin, 1949
  • Soundtrack to Au fil de la Charente by Marc Magnien, 1950
  • Soundtrack to L' amour chez les animaux maternel by Jean Mineur, 1950
  • Soundtrack to Dakar, escale atlantique by Jean -Jacques Méhu, 1951
  • Soundtrack to Un amour de parapluie by Jean Laviron ( with Louis de Funès ), 1951
  • Soundtrack to Dernières fumées of Albert Guyot, 1956
  • Corinne, opera, 1956
  • Soundtrack to La guêpe maçonne by André Stenner, 1958
  • Soundtrack to Aventure à Alger Jacques Chabannes, 1960
  • Psaume 41 for soprano, mixed choir and Ordhester, 1962
  • Concerto pour la Veillée Pascale for organ, brass quintet, timpani and choirs, UA 1967 by Jean Guillou at the Saint-Eustache church, led by Émile Martin
  • Etude baroque: grande étude de concert pour piano, 1971
  • Endymion, symphonic poem
  • Nox, symphonic poem for voice and orchestra after a poem by Charles Leconte de Lisle, UA at the Concerts Lamoureux
  • Spectacle rassurant for voice and orchestra
  • Poème d' Adonis
  • Vision de la 4e Eglogue for 19 strings
  • Trois préludes for Piano
  • Boîte de couleurs for Piano
  • Le Jour for three voices
  • La nuit blanche for Voice and Piano
  • Trois sur mélodies of poèmes de Ronsard
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