Georges Édouard Dandelot (b. Paris

Paris

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, Dec. 2, 1895 –- d. Saint-Georges-de-Didonne

Saint-Georges-de-Didonne

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 (Charente-Maritime

Charente-Maritime

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), Aug. 17, 1975) was a French composer.

Biography

Dandelot's father was Alfred Dandelot, and his mother was the daughter of a piano maker. Dandelot studied at the Paris Conservatory under Émile Schwartz, Louis Diémer

Louis Diémer

Louis-Joseph Diémer was a French pianist and composer.- Life :Diémer studied at the Paris Conservatoire, winning premiers prix in piano, harmony and accompaniment, counterpoint and fugue, and solfège, and a second prix in organ...

, Xavier Leroux

Xavier Leroux

Xavier Henry Napoleón Leroux was a French composer.Leroux was the son of a military bandleader. He studied at the Paris Conservatory under Jules Massenet and Théodore Dubois, and won the Prix de Rome in 1885 with the cantata Endymion...

, Jean Gallon

Jean Gallon

Jean Gallon was a French composer, choir conductor, and music educator. His compositional output consists of six antiphons for strings and organ, one mass, one ballet, and several art songs....

, Georges Caussade

Georges Caussade

Georges Caussade was a French composer, music theorist, and music educator. Born in Port Louis, Mauritius, he joined the faculty of the Conservatoire de Paris in 1905 as a teacher of counterpoint. He began teaching fugue at the school as well in 1921; a position his wife, composer Simone...

, Charles-Marie Widor

Charles-Marie Widor

Charles-Marie Jean Albert Widor was a French organist, composer and teacher.-Life:Widor was born in Lyon, to a family of organ builders, and initially studied music there with his father, François-Charles Widor, titular organist of Saint-François-de-Sales from 1838 to 1889...

, Vincent D'Indy

Vincent d'Indy

Vincent d'Indy was a French composer and teacher.-Life:Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy was born in Paris into an aristocratic family of royalist and Catholic persuasion. He had piano lessons from an early age from his paternal grandmother, who passed him on to Antoine François Marmontel and...

, Maurice Emmanuel

Maurice Emmanuel

Maurice Emmanuel was a French composer of classical music.Brought up in Dijon, Marie François Maurice Emmanuel became a chorister at Beaune cathedral after his family moved to the city in 1869. Subsequently he went to Paris, and he entered the Paris Conservatoire, where his composition teacher...

, Paul Dukas

Paul Dukas

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, and Albert Roussel

Albert Roussel

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. After serving in World War I

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, he began teaching piano in 1919 at the École Normale de Musique de Paris

École Normale de Musique de Paris

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; from 1942 he taught harmony at the Paris Conservatory, and published treatises on solfege

Solfege

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 and harmony

Harmony

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. Among his pupils were composers Paul Méfano

Paul Méfano

Paul Méfano , is a French composer and conductor.-Biography:Paul Méfano pursued musical studies at the École Normale de Musique de Paris, and then later at the Paris Conservatory , where he was a student of Andrée Vaurabourg-Honegger, Darius Milhaud, and Georges Dandelot...

, Michel Perrault

Michel Perrault

Michel Brunet Perrault is a Canadian composer, conductor, music educator, and percussionist. As a composer, his work largely pulls on Canadian folk melodies and his compositions avoid modernism in favor of classical ideas of harmony and counterpoint. He described his own work in these words, "I'm...

, and Michel Philippot

Michel Philippot

Michel Paul Philippot was a French composer, mathematician, acoustician, musicologist, aesthetician, broadcaster, and educator.-Life:...

.

Orchestral works

• Pax, Oratorio
  Oratorio
  An oratorio is a large musical composition including an orchestra, a choir, and soloists. Like an opera, an oratorio includes the use of a choir, soloists, an ensemble, various distinguishable characters, and arias...
  
  for vocal soloists, chorus and orchestra (1937)
• Symphonie en d minor (1941)
• Concerto pour piano (1934)
• Concerto romantique pour violon et orchestre (1944)

Chamber music

• String quartet
• Trois valses à 2 pianos
• Sonatine pour flûte et piano (1938)
• Sonatine pour piano et violon (1946)
• Sonatine pour trompette (1961)

Operas

• L'Ennemi, opera in 3 acts
• Midas, opéra-comique bouffe in 3 acts (1948)
• Apolline, operetta in 3 acts