Émile Paladilhe
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Émile Paladilhe (3 June 1844 – 6 January 1926) was a French composer of the late romantic period.
Biography
Émile Paladilhe was born in
Galli-Marié was his lover, and she helped create some of his works. Paladilhe married the daughter of the librettist Ernest Legouvé. He formed a friendship with the elderly Charles Gounod
.
Works
He wrote a number of compositions for the stage, a symphony, over a hundred mélodies, piano works, and a wide range of sacred music, including cantatas, motets, masses, chorales, and a noted oratorio, Les Saintes-Marie de la mer.
His opera Patrie! of 1886 was his greatest success, and was one of the last
piece d'occasion, created for a gala in honour of the French colony in Monaco, but had a Flemish-nationalist theme.[1] The librettists were Victorien Sardou and Louis Gallet[2]
A few of Paladilhe's works for solo
voice
are still performed today, the most notable being his Solo pour hautbois, alternatively titled Solo de concert, written in 1898.
Operas
- La fiancée d'Abydos, 1864–66, fragments
- Le passant, opéra-comique in one act, (F. Coppée), first performed (f.p.) Opéra-Comique, 24 April 1872
- L'amour africain, opéra-comique in two act, (E. Le Gouvé), f.p. Opéra-Comique, 8 May 1875
- Suzanne, opéra-comique in 3 acts, (de Lockroy & Cormon), f.p. Opéra-Comique, 30 December 1878
- Diana, opéra-comique in 3 acts, (Regnier & Normand), f.p. Opéra-Comique, 23 February 1885
- Opéra de Paris (Palais Garnier), 16 December 1886
- Vanina, opéra in 4 acts, (Legouvé & Gallet), composed 1890 (unperformed)
- Dalila, opéra in 3 acts, (Feuillet et Gallet), composed 1896 (unperformed)
References
- The Cambridge companion to grand operaDavid Charlton - 2003 p300 "The Flemish patriots Rysoor and Karloo seek to cast off the yoke of oppression. Karloo is the lover of Dolores, Rysoor's wife. ... Another difference between the two works is that whereas Paladilhe accords considerable musical weight to ...
- Le guide musical54 1908 "La semaine dernière, nous avons eu, au Théâtre royal français, la première représentation de Patrie, grand-opéra en cinq actes, poème de Victorien Sardou et Gallet, musique de Paladilhe, qui fut exécuté pour la première fois au théâtre "
External links
- Classical Archives site
- Musica et Memoria : Émile Paladilhe (in French)
- Free scores by Emile Paladilhe at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
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