Marcel Labey 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...

 conductor and composer.

Life

He was born to a family of magistrates and studied law in Paris (gaining his doctorate in 1898) before turning to music. He learned piano under Élie-Miriam Delaborde

Élie-Miriam Delaborde

Eraïm-Miriam Delaborde, generally known as Élie-Miriam Delaborde was a French pianist and composer. He was also renowned as a player of the pedal piano....

 and Louis Breitner, and harmony under René Lenormand. He met 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...

 who made him follow his courses at the Schola Cantorum. The First World War interrupted his musical studies and career - he was wounded twice and mentioned in dispatches 4 times.

At the Schola Cantorum, he taught piano and (until the death of Vincent d'Indy) was one of its under-directors, and later became the co-founder and director of the Ecole César Franck

École César Franck

The École César-Franck was a music school founded in Paris in January 1935 by Guy de Lioncourt, Louis de Serres, Pierre de Bréville and Marcel Labey...

 (1935-962). He was also secretary of France's Société nationale de musique.

His wife, a student of Vincent d'Indy herself, composed a symphony, melodies, four string quartet

String quartet

A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string players – usually two violin players, a violist and a cellist – or a piece written to be performed by such a group...

s and a lyric drama in 3 acts called L'Esclave Couronnée, which adapted a novel by Selma Lagerlöf

Selma Lagerlöf

Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf was a Swedish author. She was the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and most widely known for her children's book Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige ....

 and was put on at Mulhouse

Mulhouse

Mulhouse |mill]] hamlet) is a city and commune in eastern France, close to the Swiss and German borders. With a population of 110,514 and 278,206 inhabitants in the metropolitan area in 2006, it is the largest city in the Haut-Rhin département, and the second largest in the Alsace region after...

on 6 May 1947.

Orchestral music

• Fantaisie (1900)
• 4 symphonies (1903 - 1908 - 1933 - 1940)
• Ouverture pour un drame (1920 ; Paris, 22 January 1921)
• Lied for cello and orchestra (1920)
• Suite champêtre (1922)
• Eglogue (1943)
• Triptyque symphonique (1947)
• Symphonietta for chamber orchestra (1950)
• Paysages marins (1952)
• Symphonie pour cordes (1954)
• Poème for piano and orchestra (1957)

Chamber and instrumental music

• Sonate pour piano (1900)
• sonates pour violon et piano (1901 - 1924 - 1951 - 1954)
• Sonate pour alto et piano, op.7 (1904)
• Quatuor avec piano (1911)
• Suite pour piano (1914)
• Quatuors à cordes (1919 - 1948)
• 2 Trios avec piano (1922 - 1937)
• Quintette avec piano (1929)
• Trio à cordes (1929)
• Sonate pour violoncelle et piano (1944)
• Sextuor à cordes (1959)
• des pièces pour piano et orgue
• des mélodies
• publication of adaptations for piano of several orchestral works by Vincent d'Indy :Symphonie en si bémol, Jour d'été à la montagne, etc.

External links

Marcel Labey Breton composers