Raymond Gallois-Montbrun

Raymond Gallois - Montbrun ( born August 15, 1918 in Saigon, † August 13, 1994 in Paris) was a French violinist and composer.

Life

Gallois Montbrun - studied from 1930 to 1942 at the Paris Conservatoire violin with Firmin Touche, harmony with Jean Gallon, counterpoint and fugue with Noël Gallon and composition with Henri Busser. After a second Grand Prix 1942, he won in 1944 with the cantata Louise de la Miséricorde the Premier Grand Prix de Rome.

After connected to the price stay at the Villa Medici in Rome ( 1946-1948 ) he attended from 1952 to 1954 classes for violin and composition at the Institut Francais in Tokyo. Since 1944, he traveled through Europe as a violinist, North Africa, the Middle and Far East and played a radio and recordings. In 1955 he was honored as a composer with the Prix de la Ville de Paris, 1957, he was awarded for the chamber opera Le Rossignol de l' Empereur the Prix Italia.

1957 Gallois Montbrun - director of the Conservatory of Versailles, 1962-1983, he headed the Conservatoire de Paris, next to 1967 also the Société des Concerts. In 1980 he followed Paul Paray after as a member of the Académie des Beaux -Arts. From 1983 to 1992 he headed the Long - Thibaud International Concous.

Works

• Trio à cordes, 1941
• Trois pièces for piano, 1944
• Concert Piece for Clarinet and Piano, 1946
• Pages de sonatine, 5 pieces for violin and piano, 1946
• Douze Etudes - Caprices de concert for Violin, 1947
• Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, 1949
• Sarabande et Finale for Trumpet and Piano, 1949
• Marche for trumpet and piano, 1950
• Les Sept péchés capitaux, 1951
• Six pièces d' étude musicales for Flute and Piano, 1953
• Six pièces d' étude musicales for alto saxophone and piano, 1954
• Six pièces d' étude musicales for Clarinet and Piano, 1955
• Divertissement for flute and piano, 1956
• Le Rossignol et l' Empereur, chamber opera based on a libretto by Philippe Soupault, 1957
• Mélodies et Proverbes, 12 pieces for piano, 1958
• Sonatina for piano, 1958
• Le port de Delft for orchestra, 1960
• Symphony japonaise, 1960
• Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, 1963
• Ballade for Flute and Piano, 1986
• Complainte for alto saxophone and piano, 1986
• Fantasme for Trumpet, 1986
• Cécile et ses petits Pages, 12 pièces pour violon progressive à la 1ère position avec accompagnement de piano, 1994
• Mouvances for Oboe and Piano, 1991
• Quand l' heure sun for Violin and Piano, 1993
• Sonate pour piano, 1993
• Andante for Violin and Piano
• Aria for Trombone and Piano
• Ballade for Horn and Piano
• Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra
• Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra
• Danses de Jehan Alain ( Orchestration )
• Entr'acte pour orchester
• Humoresque for Clarinet and Piano
• Improvisation for bassoon and piano
• Intermezzo for alto saxophone and piano
• Song for Trumpet and Piano
• Louise of Mercy, cantata
• Les Menines for orchestra
• Menuet et Rondo for Orchestra
• Mosaique, 8 Pieces for Piano
• Petite suite pour marionnettes for orchestra
• Prelude for Oboe and Piano
• Preludes for Piano
• Les Rêves de Janceline, 9 Pieces for Violin and Piano
• Scherzo for trumpet and piano
• Modern solos de concert for Violin and Piano
• Sonata for Violin and Piano
• Stella ou le Piège de Sable, opera
• Symphony
• Tableaux Indochinois for String Quartet
• Trois mélodies, for voice and piano or orchestra
• Valse - Caprice for Flute and Piano
• Valse - Caprice for Orchestra
• Variations de concert for Violin and Piano

• Violinist
• French composer
• Member of the Legion of Honour ( Officer )
• Support of the French National Order of Merit ( Grand Officer )
• Carrier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres ( Commander )
• Born in 1918
• Died in 1994
• Man