Georges Marty
Georges -Eugène Marty (* 1860 in Paris, † 1908) was a French composer and conductor.
Marty studied at the Conservatoire de Paris composition with Jules Massenet and Théodore Dubois and won in 1882 alongside Gabriel Pierné the Premier Grand Prix de Rome. After connected to the price stay at the Villa Medici in Rome, he traveled with Pierné, with whom he remained a lifelong friend, through Germany, where he among other things, Franz Liszt and Carl Reinecke visited.
After Joseph 's death in 1892, he was temporarily Heybergers choir director of the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, he was chef de chant at the Paris Opera, 1900 he moved to the Opéra -Comique. He led the first class for vocal ensemble at the Conservatoire de Paris and then became professor of harmony.
From 1901 to 1908 he was the successor of Paul Taffanel principal conductor of the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, since 1905 also director of Fondation Beaulieu. As head of the Société des Concerts, he led the great oratorios and operas of the Baroque period on ( including St. John Passion, Magnificat and Christmas Oratorio by Bach and Saul by Handel, also reconstructed works by Rameau ), as well as Haydn's Creation and Seasons, Mozart's Requiem, Saint- Saens ' La Lyre et la Harpe and Franck's Les Béatitudes. Over the years they have performed works by Richard Wagner ( Siegfried -Idyll ), Edvard Grieg ( Holberg Suite ), Johannes Brahms ( Piano Concerto ) and Gabriel Fauré ( Pavane ) added.
Under his direction, appeared as soloist Ricardo Viñes, Édouard Risler, Alfred Cortot, Jacques Thibaud and Pablo Casals. 1908 Marguerite Long played for the first time Fauré's Ballade, a work which still aufführte in the 1950s with the Société des Concerts.
Marty's compositional work came after 1900 after being the conductor back. Lists of his works, yet often the overture to the opera Balthazar and Les Saisons, an orchestral suite with choirs, as well as for the competitions at the Conservatoire composed clarinet pieces.