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Gabriel Marie Grovlez (4 April 1879 – 20 October 1944) was a French composer, conductor, pianist, and music critic.

Gabriel Grovlez (ca. 1917)
Gabriel Grovlez (ca. 1917)

Early life and education


Grovlez was born in Lille in 1879. His mother – the child of one of Chopin's students – was his first piano teacher.[1] Grovlez attended the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied with Gabriel Fauré, Louis Diémer, André Gedalge, Descombes, Kaiser and Lavignac.[1][2] At the Schola Cantorum, Charles Bordes introduced him to Gregorian Chant and the music of the Renaissance.[2]


Career


Grovlez toured Europe as an accompanist to Henri Marteau, violinist,[1] and as a solo pianist.[citation needed] He was professor of piano at the Schola Cantorum from 1899 to 1909, choir director and deputy[citation needed] conductor of the Opéra Comique (1905–1908), and musical director at the Théâtre des Arts (1911–1913). At the Théâtre des Arts, he gave the premieres of Albert Roussel's Le Festin de l'araignée and Maurice Ravel's Ma mère l'oye, and also revived many operas, particularly from the baroque era, including works by Monteverdi, Lully, Rameau and Gluck.[1]

From 1914 to 1933, he was the director of the Opéra de Paris ("Societé Nationale de l'Opéra"),[3] where among other productions, he conducted a season of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.[1] He had an international career as a guest conductor,[3] and worked at opera houses in Monte Carlo, Cairo, Lisbon, New York and Chicago. From 1939, he was a professor of chamber music at the Conservatoire.[1]

During his tenure at the Opéra de Paris, Grovlez edited collections of arias from early French opera, which were influential in England.[3] He also wrote reviews for Paris music journals including Excelsior (1916–17) and L'Art musical (1937–39).

Grovlez died in Paris in 1944, at the age of 65.[1]


Compositions


His compositions were mainly for voice and for the stage, including multiple ballets. Much of his work shows strong neo-classical influences. Alain Louvier describes his compositions as "cultivated and finely coloured", distinctive but with influences from Fauré.[1] His notable operas include Coeur de rubis (1906) and Le marquis de Carabas (1926).[4] He wrote around 50 songs, described by Graham Johnson and Richard Stokes as often having "an elegant and sometimes whimsical effect" in performance.[3] Good examples of his vocal writing include Trois Mélodies sur des poèmes de Jacques Heugel; Paroles à l'absente, setting poems by G. Jean-Aubry (1918); and Guitares et mandolines (1913), setting a work by Camille Saint-Saëns.[3] He also wrote music for children, including the popular L'Almanach aux images for piano.[3]


Selected works


Stage
Orchestra
Chamber music
Piano
Vocal

References


  1. Alain Louvier (20 January 2001). Grovlez, Gabriel (Marie). Grove Music Online, Oxford University Press doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.11851
  2. Guy Ferchault, "Grovlez, Gabriel (Marie)", in: Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG), rev. ed., biographical part vol. 8 (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2002), cc. 106.
  3. Graham Johnson, Richard Stokes. A French Song Companion, p. 235 (Oxford University Press; 2002) ISBN 9780199249664
  4. Alain Louvier (1 December 1992). Grovlez, Gabriel (opera) (Marie). Grove Music Online, Oxford University Press doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O005882



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Gabriel Grovlez (* 4. April 1879 in Lille; † 20. Oktober 1944 in Paris) war ein französischer Dirigent and Komponist.
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