Paul Ladmirault

Paul Emil Ladmirault ( born December 8, 1877 in Nantes, † 30 October 1944 Camoël ) was a French composer.

Mended and work

Paul Ladmirault attended the Conservatory of Nantes and won here sixteen year the first prize in harmony. In the same year his first opera Gilles de Retz was premiered with great success in his hometown.

At the Paris Conservatory, he studied from 1895 counterpoint and fugue with André Gédalge and 1897-1904 composition with Gabriel Fauré. He orchestrated works of his teacher and quickly found the recognition of his famous colleague Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy. Through the mediation of the latter he became a member of the Société Nationale de Musique, the aufführte 1903 his Chœur of Âmes de la Forêt.

In 1909 at Le Châtelet under the direction of Gabriel Pierné the premiere of the symphonic poem brocéliande au Matin instead, which is based, like the Suite Bretonne from 1903 on musical material from his opera never listed Myrdhin ( Merlin).

During the First World War Ladmirault was four and a half years, soldier, after which he retired to Kerbili s Camoel and worked from 1920 as professor of harmony, counterpoint and composition at the Conservatory of Nantes. At the same time he began writing as a music critic for the magazine Chanteclair.

In 1918 he completed the incidental music to Le Roman de Tristan (after Joseph Bédier ), which was premiered in 1919 in Nice and at the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt. 1920 conducted Rhené Baton at the Concerts Pasdeloup the Rapsodie Gaélique. Ladmirault campaigned for cultural autonomy of Brittany and was one of the first composers member of the group Seiz Breur, later followed him, among other things Georges Arnoux and Paul Le Flem.

Ladmiraults biggest success was the performance of his tone poem En Forêt by the Paris Symphony Orchestra in 1932 under the direction of Eugène Bigot. The press hailed the composition as his best work. About the same time also his great string quartet was formed.

In 1933 he wrote seven piano pieces under the title Les mémoires d'une âne, and shortly afterwards was a violin sonata, which he dedicated to his friend Georges Enesco; this gave the premiere in 1934, he devoted more sonatas two colleagues at the Conservatoire of Nantes. cellist Robert Laffra and clarinetist Victor Graf.

After his turn to Christianity Ladmiral composed on the occasion of the ordination of his son Daniel at the age of sixty years, his only major sacred work, the Missa breve.

Works

  • Gilles de Retz, opera, 1893
  • Valse triste pour piano et orchester, 1901
  • Suite Bretonne, 1903
  • Suite Bretonne, 1905
  • Brocéliande au matin, symphonic poem, 1909
  • Rapsodie Gaélique, 1909
  • En Forêt, symphonic poem, 1913
  • La Pretresse de Korydwenn, Ballet, 1917
  • Myrdhin, opera, 1921
  • La Brière, symphonic poem, 1925
  • Glycères, operetta, 1928
  • Tristan et Iseult, incidental music, 1929
  • Sonata for violin and piano, 1931
  • Quintette à cordes, 1933
  • String quartet in 1933
  • Sonate pour piano et cello, 1939
  • Fair brève pour orgue et chœur, 1939
  • Sonata for clarinet et piano, 1942
  • La Jeunesse de Cervantes for orchestra
  • Symphony in Ut
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