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Henri Benjamin Rabaud (10 November 1873  11 September 1949)[1] was a French conductor, composer and pedagogue, who held important posts in the French musical establishment and upheld mainly conservative trends in French music in the first half of the twentieth century.[2][3]

Henri Rabaud in 1918
Henri Rabaud in 1918

Life and career


Rabaud came from a musical background. He was the son of a cellist Hippolyte Rabaud (1839–1900), professor of cello at the Paris Conservatoire, while his mother was a singer who almost created the role of Marguérite at the request of Charles Gounod.[3] His maternal grandfather was a well-known flautist,[3] while his great aunt was Julie Dorus-Gras.[2]

Henri studied at the Conservatoire with André Gedalge and Jules Massenet. In 1908, he became a conductor at the Paris Opéra-Comique where he later conducted the 100th performance of his opera Mârouf, savetier du Caire,[4] and from 1914 to 1918 he directed the Paris Opéra. In 1918 he became musical director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for only one season before returning to Paris. While in Boston, he was elected to membership in the Alpha chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia fraternity, the national fraternity for men in music.

Following the resignation of Gabriel Fauré in 1922, Rabaud was his successor as director of the Conservatoire, where he remained until his retirement in 1941. Notable students during those years were Olivier Messiaen, Jean Langlais, and Jehan Alain. Staff included Paul Dukas and Jean Roger-Ducasse for composition, Marcel Dupré for organ, Marcel Moyse for flute, and Claire Croiza for singing.[5]

In October 1940, he helped compile a dossier describing in detail the racial make-up of all Conservatoire students for the occupying forces.[6]


Compositions


Rabaud's cantata Daphné won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome in 1894. His opéra comique Mârouf, savetier du Caire combines the Wagnerian and the exotic. He wrote other operas, including L'appel de la mer based on J. M. Synge's Riders to the Sea, as well as incidental music and film scores, such as the 1925 score for Joueur d'échecs (Chess Player).

Orchestral music by Rabaud includes a Divertissement on Russian songs, an Eglogue, a Virgilian poem for orchestra, as well as the symphonic poem La procession nocturne, his best known orchestral work, still occasionally revived and recorded. He also wrote music for chorus and orchestra and two symphonies.

His chamber music includes several works for cello and piano as well as a Solo de concours for clarinet and piano — a virtuosic competition piece written in 1901 for Conservatoire contests.

Conservative as a composer, he was known for his mantra, "modernism is the enemy."


Selected list of works


Stage

Voice with orchestra

Orchestra

Chamber music

Other


See also



References


  1. The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music.
  2. Girardot A. Henri Rabaud. In: The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Macmillan, London and New York, 1997.
  3. Landormy P. La Musique Française après Debussy. Gallimard, Paris, 1943.
  4. Wolff S. Un Demi-siècle d'Opéra-Comique (1900-1950). André Bonne, Paris, 1953.
  5. Simeone, Nigel (2000). Paris – A Musical Gazetteer. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300080537.
  6. Jean Gribenski, in Myriam Chimènes (ed.): La vie musicale sous Vichy, Paris, 2001, p. 147.
  7. BNF Autograph Orchestral Score of Symphony 1 dated May 1893
  8. BNF Autograph Orchestral Score of Symphony 2 dated April 1899



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[de] Henri Rabaud

Henri Rabaud (* 10. November 1873 in Paris; † 11. September 1949 ebenda) war ein französischer Komponist und Dirigent.
- [en] Henri Rabaud

[es] Henri Rabaud

Henri Rabaud (París, 10 de noviembre de 1873 - París, 11 de septiembre de 1949) fue un compositor y director de orquesta francés.

[ru] Рабо, Анри

Анри́ Рабо́ (фр. Henri Rabaud; 10 ноября 1873, Париж — 11 сентября 1949) — французский композитор и дирижёр.



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