Alexis Roland-Manuel
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Alexis Roland-Manuel (22 March 1891 – 1 November 1966) was a French composer and critic, remembered mainly for his criticism.
Biography
He was born Roland Alexis Manuel Lévy in Paris, to a family of
Jewish origins. He studied composition under Vincent d'Indy and Albert Roussel. As a young man he befriended composer Erik Satie, who helped him to make numerous influential connections. In 1911, Satie introduced Roland-Manuel to Maurice Ravel
, whose pupil, friend and biographer he soon became.
In 1947, he was appointed Professor of
comic operas, and screen, developing a partnership with director Jean Grémillon, for five of whose films he composed the scores.[1]
Roland-Manuel's criticism included several monographs on the music of Ravel from the perspective of a respectful pupil and a lifetime friend. The titles include "Ravel", "Ravel et son oeuvre" and "Ravel et son oeuvre dramatique".
Arthur Honegger dedicated Pastorale d'été to Roland-Manuel.[2]
He died in Paris in 1966.
Selected works
Stage
- Isabelle et Pantalon (1922)
- Canarie (1927; for the children's ballet L'éventail de Jeanne, to which ten French composers each contributed a dance)
- Le Diable amoureux (1929), opera based on the novel The Devil in Love by Jacques Cazotte
- Canarie (1952: for the collaborative orchestral work La guirlande de Campra)
- Jeanne d'Arc (1955)
Film scores
- Little Lise (1930)
- The Dream (1931)
- Partir (Departure, 1931)
- Crainquebille (1934)
- King of the Camargue (1935)
- The Brighton Twins (1936)
- The Strange Monsieur Victor (1938)
- Remorques, (Stormy Waters, 1941)
- Summer Light (1943)
- Lucrèce (1943)
- Le Ciel est à vous (The Woman Who Dared, 1944)
References
- ^ IMDB search
- ^ Topeka Symphony Archived 28 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
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