Paule Maurice

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Paule Charlotte Marie Jeanne Maurice (29 September 1910 – 18 August 1967) was a French composer.

Life and career

Maurice was born in

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. Paule Maurice's teachers included

. 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

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Paule Maurice died at age 56 in Paris.

List of works

Works list derived from Paule Maurice's 1960 curriculum vitae :

• Symphonie (1939)[1]
• Concerto giocoso pour piano et orchestre (1950)
• Concerto (Concertino) pour piano et orchestre (1955)
• 2 ballets ("Cosmorama" - Commande de l’État; "Idylle exotique")
• Poème symphonique ("L’Embarquement pour Cithère" - Commande de l’État)
• Tableaux de Provence, suite pour saxophone et orchestre (1948-1955)
• 3 Suites d’orchestre ("Quartier latin", "Tourisme", "Night Club chez Belzébuth")
• Quatuor de flûtes
• Quatuor à cordes
• Trio pour anches
• Suite pour 2 pianos (9 pièces)
• Variations pour piano
• 5 Pièces pour piano (Ed. Durand)
• 9 Pièces pour piano (Ed. Leduc)
• 6 Pièces pour piano (Ed. P. Noël)
• 5 Préludes pour piano (Ed.Fongères)
• 3 Pièces violon piano (Ed. Noël)
• Mélodies (NOËL)
• Musiques de scène (Incidental music for: "
  On ne badine pas avec l'amour
  ", "Watheau", "Patounet")
• Pièces pour flûte
• Pièces pour saxophone
• Pièces pour clarinette
• Chœurs mélodies

In preparation at the time of her 1960 curriculum vitae : Suite pour 2 pianos et orchestre.

Compositions documented by academic database WorldCat:

• Tableaux de Provence
• Suite pour quatuor de flûtes
• Volio (saxophone etude)
• Mémoires d'un chat
• Concerto pour piano et orchestre
• Cosmorama
• Trois pièces pour violon

Awards

• Prix Halpheu (Composition)
• Prix du Congrès Marial de Boulogne pour une Cantate
• Prix pour l’ensemble de la composition féminine
• Prix du public et du Jury, Pasdeloup Orchestra
• Prix Georges Hüe pour la mélodie

References

• Who is Paule Maurice? Her Relative Anonymity and its Consequences
• Complément du traité d'Harmonie de Reber [1]
• A Comprehensive Guide to the Saxophone Repertoire, 1844-2003 by Jean-Marie Londeix
• Jean-Marie Londeix: Master of the Modern Saxophone by James Umble
• Marcel Mule, His Life, and the Saxophone by Eugene Rousseau
• "Paule Maurice", in Sax, Mule & Co by Jean-Pierre Thiollet
• The Cambridge Companion to the Saxophone
  by Richard Ingham
• Sophie Levy, Archivist,
  Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris
• Saxame.org

External links

• http://www.paulemaurice.com
• http://studentsofpaulemaurice.ning.com
• https://web.archive.org/web/20090816093054/http://www.jm-londeix.com/en/index.htm
• Paule Maurice's 1960 curriculum vitae
• http://mediatheque.cnsmdp.fr/OPACWebAloes/OPAC/index.aspx?IdPage=33
• http://www.saxame.org
• http://www.di-arezzo.es/partituras-de-Paule+Maurice.html
• http://www.musimem.com/recherches.html
• http://www.musimem.com/obi-0997-0898.htm