PAULE MAURICE - FRANCE
BORN 18 AUGUST
Paule Charlotte Marie Jeanne Maurice (29 September 1910 – 18 August 1967) was a French composer.
Maurice was born in Paris to Raoul Auguste Alexandre Maurice and Marguerite Jeanne Lebrun. Registration lists at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris report that her father was an office worker and state only that the two were married.
Her most famous composition is the suite Tableaux de Provence pour saxophone et orchestre written between 1948 and 1955 dedicated to saxophone virtuoso, Marcel Mule. It is most often heard as a piano reduction. It was premiered on 9 December 1958 by Jean-Marie Londeix with the Orchestre Symphonique Brestois directed by Maurice's husband, and fellow composer, Pierre Lantier.
Maurice's other compositions include Suite pour quatuor de flûtes, Volio, Cosmorama, Concerto pour piano et orchestre, Mémoires d'un chat, Trois pièces pour violon, and many more. There are more titles catalogued in the library of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris where Maurice studied and spent her professional life. She received first prize of harmony in 1933, second prize of fugue in 1934, and in 1939 received first prize in composition. In 1942, Maurice was appointed Professor of Déchiffrage (sight-reading), and in 1965 became Professor of Harmonic Analysis at l'École Normale de Musique. Maurice taught many students who became professors to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with some winning the Prix de Rome (saxame.org).
Maurice and Pierre Lantier wrote a treatise on harmony entitled Complément du Traité d'Harmonie de Reber that became an important reference work in France and abroad. It was intended to be used in conjunction with the 1862 treatise of Napoléon Henri Reber entitled Traité d'Harmonie. The impact of Stravinsky, Debussy, and Ravel had created the need to update harmonic analysis.
Paule Maurice died at age 56 in Paris.
Source: Paule Maurice Official Site and Wikipedia
BORN 18 AUGUST
Paule Charlotte Marie Jeanne Maurice (29 September 1910 – 18 August 1967) was a French composer.
Maurice was born in Paris to Raoul Auguste Alexandre Maurice and Marguerite Jeanne Lebrun. Registration lists at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris report that her father was an office worker and state only that the two were married.
Her most famous composition is the suite Tableaux de Provence pour saxophone et orchestre written between 1948 and 1955 dedicated to saxophone virtuoso, Marcel Mule. It is most often heard as a piano reduction. It was premiered on 9 December 1958 by Jean-Marie Londeix with the Orchestre Symphonique Brestois directed by Maurice's husband, and fellow composer, Pierre Lantier.
Maurice's other compositions include Suite pour quatuor de flûtes, Volio, Cosmorama, Concerto pour piano et orchestre, Mémoires d'un chat, Trois pièces pour violon, and many more. There are more titles catalogued in the library of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris where Maurice studied and spent her professional life. She received first prize of harmony in 1933, second prize of fugue in 1934, and in 1939 received first prize in composition. In 1942, Maurice was appointed Professor of Déchiffrage (sight-reading), and in 1965 became Professor of Harmonic Analysis at l'École Normale de Musique. Maurice taught many students who became professors to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with some winning the Prix de Rome (saxame.org).
Maurice and Pierre Lantier wrote a treatise on harmony entitled Complément du Traité d'Harmonie de Reber that became an important reference work in France and abroad. It was intended to be used in conjunction with the 1862 treatise of Napoléon Henri Reber entitled Traité d'Harmonie. The impact of Stravinsky, Debussy, and Ravel had created the need to update harmonic analysis.
Paule Maurice died at age 56 in Paris.
Source: Paule Maurice Official Site and Wikipedia
♫ LISTEN
Tableaux de Provence by Paule Maurice
GIOVANNA DOUGLAS SCOTTI - ITALY
BORN 18 AUGUST
Giovanna Douglas Scotti is a composer who was completely erased from the history of music. There only a few precious publications that have allowed us to bring her back to history with this CD that, for the listeners and for the composer herself, is a priceless unique moment. In fact, Giovanna Douglas Scotti Della Scala was born in an aristocratic family from Romagna in the Forlì of 1889, the year in which the Eiffel Tower was inaugurated and that the Napolitan pizzaziolo Raffaele Esposito dedicated the Margherita tricolor pizza Margherita (white mozzarella, tomato red, green basil) to Queen Margherita di Savoia. Remaining orphan she moved to Milan to live with her paternal aunt Corona Douglas Scotti, wife of the painter Leonardo Bazzano (not to be confused with the 16th century Sicilian homonym) who lived between 1853 and 1937, who started teaching her to paint some portray and small landscapes on oil paintings.
BORN 18 AUGUST
While learning ceramics’ technique, Giovanna Douglas Scotti also have piano and singing lessons. She also falls in love with the work of Dante Alighieri and his Divine Comedy, which she studies thoroughly. She was engaged with the Pavese painter Alessandro Gallotti (1879-1961), but never married, preferring the freedom of the artistic life. In Brera she exhibited his works in 1918 and 1920 and she is quoted as the author of the Primavera dell'Alpino inspired on the landscapes of Stresa, very popular with the artistic world on the slope of Mottarone, where she had been for many years with her boyfriend.
Source: Drama Musica Website
♫ LISTEN
Serenata by Giovanna Douglas Scotti
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