Marcel Couraud

Marcel Couraud ( born October 20, 1912 in Limoges, † 14 September 1986 hole ) was a French conductor.

Couraud studied organ with André Marchal in Paris and attended the École normale de musique. He also took courses in composition with Nadia Boulanger and conducting with Charles Münch.

In 1944 he founded the Ensemble Vocal Marcel Couraud, with whom he chansons and madrigals of the Renaissance next time aufführte (including Orlando di Lasso and Claudio Monteverdi ) also works by contemporary composers such as Trois Petites Liturgies de la présence divine by Olivier Messiaen and recorded. He directed the ensemble until 1954 and then conducted the Bach Choir and Bach Orchestra Stuttgart.

Since 1967 he was head of the Radio Choirs of the ORTF. From whose members he made in the following year the Groupe Vocal de France, with whom he contemporary works such as Cinq Rechants of Messiaen, the Dodécaméron by Ivo Malec, Récitatif, air et variations of Gilbert Amy, Nuits by Iannis Xenakis and the Sonata à douze by Betsy Jolas aufführte.

• Conductor
• Frenchman
• Born in 1912
• Died in 1986
• Man