Henry Barraud

Henry Barraud ( born April 23 1900 in Bordeaux, France, † December 28, 1997 in Saint- Maurice ( Val -de- Marne) ) was a French composer.

Barraud began his musical studies in Bordeaux at Fernand Vaubourgoin and then went to the Conservatoire de Paris. There he attended lectures on orchestration with Louis Aubert, via composition with Paul Dukas and counterpoint and fugue with Georges Caussade. In 1927 he was expelled from the Conservatory, without audit, because he did not want the " orthodox" subject teaching methods and content.

Barraud got a job at the state Direction des beaux -arts. In the following years he worked together with Pierre Octave Ferroud, Emmanuel Bonde Ville and Jean Rivier in the development of the music company Le Triton, which had the promotion and dissemination of knowledge about the contemporary music set a goal. Since 1937 Barraud was also a music critic for the daily newspaper Le Journal.

During the Second World War Baurraud composed, for example, a piece commemorating the fallen in Lorraine in June 1940, composers Maurice Jaubert. After the liberation of Paris Barraud became the music director of Radio Diffusion Française and founded in 1946, the Maîtrise de Radio France, the whole of the national orchestra of the country. The management of the Maîtrise was transferred Marcel Courand. 1948 Barraud was director of the state broadcasting network RTF, which was later renamed in ORTF. He continued in this position until his retirement in 1965.

Works (selection)

• La France et la musique occidentale. collection: Pour la musique, NRF Gallimard, Paris 1956.
• Pour comprendre la Musique d'aujourd'hui. Éditions Le Seuil, Paris 1968.
• Les cinq grands opéras: Don Juan, Tristan et Isolde, Boris Godounov, Pelléas et Mélisande, Wozzeck. Collections Musiques Éditions Le Seuil, Paris 1972, ISBN 2-02-002058-0.
• Hector Berlioz. Collection: Les indispensables de la musique, Fayard, Paris 1979, ISBN 2-213-00793-4.