Henry Barraud (23 April 1900 – 28 December 1997) was a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

.

He was born in Bordeaux

Bordeaux

Bordeaux is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France.The Bordeaux-Arcachon-Libourne metropolitan area, has a population of 1,010,000 and constitutes the sixth-largest urban area in France. It is the capital of the Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture...

. He was a student of Louis Aubert

Louis Aubert

Louis François Marie Aubert was a French composer.-Biography:Louis Aubert was a child prodigy. His parents, recognizing their son's musical talent, sent him to Paris to receive an education at an early age...

 at the Conservatoire de Paris

Conservatoire de Paris

The Conservatoire de Paris is a college of music and dance founded in 1795, now situated in the avenue Jean Jaurès in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, France...

, but in 1927 failed to graduate, apparently because of his refusal to follow orthodox methods. Along with Pierre-Octave Ferroud

Pierre-Octave Ferroud

Pierre-Octave Ferroud was a French composer of classical music.He was born in Chasselay, Rhône, near Lyon. He went to Lyon, to Strasbourg where he studied with Guy Ropartz, and again to Lyon where he was for a time an associate and "disciple" of Florent Schmitt, and a pupil of Georges Martin...

, he helped to form the society Triton for the wider distribution of contemporary music.

After the Liberation of Paris in 1944, he was named the Director of Paris Radio, and later, in 1948, of what later became ORTF, a position he held until his retirement in 1965.

Works

As a composer, Barraud contributed to opera, ballet, orchestral music, chamber music, choral and vocal music.

OPERA

• "Numance" (Une Saison en Enfer)

Tragedie lyrique en 1 acte
Livret de Salvador de Madariaga d´apres Cervantes
(UA 22.10.1980 Radio France Grand Auditorium)
Conductor:Serge Baudo
Interpretes:Taillon-Ringart-Barrial-Blanc-Dume-Massis-Hollander)

Paul Paray

Paul Paray

Paul Paray was a French conductor, organist and composer. He is best remembered in the United States for being the resident conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for more than a decade. He married Yolande Falck on 25 August 1944.-Biography:Paray's father, Auguste, was a sculptor and organist...

 and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Detroit Symphony Orchestra

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Detroit, Michigan. Its main performance center is Orchestra Hall at the Max M. Fisher Music Center in Detroit's Midtown neighborhood...

 recorded Barraud's orchestral work Offrande à une ombre in 1957 for Mercury Records

Mercury Records

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. This wartime memorial was initially released on LP in monophonic

Monaural

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 sound; the stereophonic version was issued on CD by Philips Records

Philips Records

Philips Records is a record label that was founded by Dutch electronics company Philips. It was started by "Philips Phonographische Industrie" in 1950. Recordings were made with popular artists of various nationalities and also with classical artists from Germany, France and Holland. Philips also...

. A work listed as Symphony #1 for full orchestra (not just strings) was recorded on French Columbia FCX 597 (LP) performed by Georges Tzipine leading the ORTF. Its three movements are entitled Overture, Nocturne, and Interludes Dramatiques.

Instrumental works

• Poème (1932), for orchestra
• Wind trio (1935)
• Piano concerto (1939)
• String quartet (1939-40)
• 10 impromptus (1941) for piano
• Sonatine for violon and piano (1941)
• Offrande à une ombre, and orchestre (1941-42) à la mémoire de Maurice Jaubert
• Symphonie de Numance (1950)
• Concertino (1953) for piano, flute, clarinet, horn, bassoon and chamber orchestra
• Symphonie, for string orchestra (1955-56)
• 3rd symphony (1956-57)
• Divertimento (1962)
• Concerto for flute and strings (1963)
• Symphonie concertante, for trumpet and orchestra (1965-66)
• Trois Etudes, for orchestra (1967)
• Variations à treize (1969) for a chamber orchestra of 13 instruments
• Concert pour cordes (1971)
• Quatuor de saxophones (1975)

Writings

• Cinq grands opéras
• Pour comprendre la musique d'aujourd'hui
• La France et la musique occidentale
• Berlioz