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[pjme]

From Mediabase Bru-Zane:
Jean HURÉ
1877 - 1930
Composer, Organist, Pianist
Date of birth: 09/17/1877
Date of death: 01/27/1930
Born in Gien in 1877, Jean Huré moved to Paris in 1895 after completing his humanities studies in Angers. Under the guidance of Widor and Koechlin, he integrated into Parisian life before embarking on a career as a pianist and organist in France and abroad. Received at the courts of the Countess of Flanders, Prince Medjid, and Carmen Sylva, Queen of Romania, with whom he maintained a rich correspondence, Huré established himself, outside of high society, as an important promoter of French organ literature. His teaching activities led to the inclusion of Fred Barlow, Yves Nat, and Manuel Rosenthal among his students. He is also the author of numerous educational and aesthetic works such as Dogmes musicals, Piano Technique or Organ Technique, Aesthetics of the Organ or St-Augustin Musician. Successively organist of Angers Cathedral and numerous Parisian parishes, he ended his career at the keyboards of the Sacré-Cœur and then St-Augustin, succeeding Eugène Gigout. Founder of L'Orgue et les Organistes in 1923, he was the author of a large body of articles in the musical press at the beginning of the century. He succumbed to pneumonia in Paris in 1930, leaving a symphonic, theatrical and chamber music oeuvre that bears witness to his broad diachronic musical culture, crowned by these words of Georges Migot: "Jean Huré does not make a revolution, knowing only too well all that this attitude entails in terms of destruction without reconstruction. He makes an evolution, he goes elsewhere, but without breaking with the past."

[Roy Bland]

i don't know if it's complete

Les œuvres d'Elsa Barraine sont éditées chez Costallat, Durand, Salabert, Schott

1928, Joeuses Pâques, pour chant et piano. Valse chantée (au charmantissime illustrissime vénérablissime compositeur Claude Arrieu. Hommage attendri de l'humble et respectueux Elsa Barraine,   11 avril 1928. Manuscrit 20798, Bibliothèque nationales de France (musique)
1930, Harald Harfagard, variations symphoniques d'après H. Heine
1930, S ymphonie n° 1
1930, Deuxième prélude et fugue pour orgue. Durand, Paris 1930
1931, Quintette à vents
1931, Il y a quelqu'un d'autre je pense pour chant et piano,sur un texte d'auteur chinois inconnu, trduit pas Marc Logé. Enoch, Paris 1931
1931, Je ne réclamais rien de toi pour chant et piano, sur un poème de Rabindranat Tagore, traduit par André Gide. Enochn Paris 1931
1931, Je suis ici pour te chanter des chansons, pour chant et piano, sur un poème de Rabindranat Tagore, traduit par André Gide. Enochn Paris 1931
1933, Pogromes, pour orchestre
1936, Crépuscules pour cor d'harmonie avec accompagnement piano. Ch. Gras, Paris 1936
1936, Elégie et ronde pour flûte et accompagnement de piano.Ch. Gras 1936.
1936, Fanfare pour cor d'harmonie avec accompagnement de piano. Ch. Gras, Paris 1936
1936, Hommage à Paul Dukas, pour la piano. Supplément à la « Revue musicale » de mai-juin 1936
1938, Symphonie n° 2
1938, Dans le sable pour piano et chant sur des paroles de Pierre Camus. Editions sociales internationales, Paris 1938.
1939, Aria pour trompette en ut (ou violon). Editions sociales internationales 1939
1944, Avis sur un poème de Paul Eluard, pour chœur et orchestre. Chant du monde, 1945
1945, Suite astrologique, pour petit orchestre
1945, Variations sur « Le fleuve rouge »
1947, Le mur, ballet de R. de Jouvenal
1947, musique de film pour « La flûte magique » en colaboration avec Marcel Delannoy
1947, Improvisation pour saxophone (Concours Conservatoire de Paris). Costallat 1947
1948, Musique de scène pour Printemps de la liberté de J. Grémillon
1948, Musique pour le film Pattes blanches de J. Grémillon
1948, Poésie ininterrompue, cantate sur un poème de Paul Eluard, pour 3 voix solistes et orchestre
1949, L'homme sur terre sur un poème de Paul Eluard, pour chœur et orchestre. L'Art musical populaire, Givors 1980
1950, Claudine à l'école, ballet de Colette
1950, La chanson du mal-aimé, ballet d'après Guillaume Apollinaire
1950, Variations, pour percussion et piano
1951, La nativité, sur un poème de L. Masson, pour voix solistes, chœur et orchestre
1952, Les cinq plaies sur un poème de M. Manoll, pour vois solistes choeur et orchestre
1953, Hommage à Prokofiev, pour orchestre
1954, Fanfares de printemps pour cornet à piston (en si bémol ou en la) et piano. Max Eschig, Paris 1954
1955, 3 ridicules, pour orchestre
1956, Musique pour le film Le sabotier du Val de Loire de Jacques Demy
1958, Les paysans sur un poème de A. Frenaud, pour 4 voix solistes et orchestre de chambre
1958, Andante et Allegro pour saxhorn [Morceau de concours pour le Conservatoire de Paris]
1959, Les jongleurs, pour orchestre
1959, Les tziganes, pour orchestre
1961, Fantaisie pour clavecin (ou piano). Editions Transatlantiques 1961
1966, Atmosphère, pour hautbois et 10 cordes
1966, Chien de paille pour tuba (ou trombonne ténor, ou trombone basse, ou basson, ou onde Martenot) [Concours du Conservatoire National Spérieur de Paris]
1966-1977, Musique rituelle sur un texte de Bardo Thödo, pour orgue, gongs, xylorimba,
1977, De premier mai en premier mai sur un poème de Paul Eluard, pour 4 voix mixtes, chœur. L'Art musical populaire, 1979
1982, La boite de Pandore, 54 exercices et de rythme pour le piano. G. Billaudot, Paris 1982

[Madiel]

That was something that required an explanation and a link, not a copy and paste.

[Symphonic Addict]

Don't blame him. Posts without context are his specialty.

[Roy Bland]

Don't blame him. Posts without context are his specialty.

Elsa Barraine was a french composer? So it's IT

[Madiel]

I actually worked out it was a list of compositions by Elsa Barraine, even though I've never heard of Elsa Barraine before as far as I know. But just imagine if you'd said something like "I've found a list of compositions by Elsa Barraine". Imagine if you'd said something about her compositional style, or her influences.

Imagine if you'd provided a link instead of a text dump. Or tried Google Translate. Or just linked to her English-language Wikipedia page which has a list of compositions, sorted by genre as well as date. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Barraine#List_of_compositions.

There's a big difference between identifying that something is on topic, which you've done, and actually communicating, which you haven't. This is a message board, not a database. I actually love databases of compositions, I've got a tonne of them in various forms. But I don't typically copy and paste them onto GMG.

[pjme]

Elsa Barraine is getting some attention recently: a cd (two symphonies/Elena Schwarz), Cristian Macelaru quite recently conducted her second symphony in Paris (I've posted the YT link at least twice I think...) ,YT has also an old French recording with Rosenthal.
https://youtu.be/X-7vYyQQAuM?si=axTXIhJ2Z-OFmILt
https://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,11592.msg1612017.html#msg1612017

Anyway, an interesting figure ( she was a communist - i wonder if her music will reach the USA...). personally I find the music I've listened to not "exceptional". Surely it is expertly made, I find it rather bland.
Late in life (1967) she wrote a very strange work for organ, tamtam(gongs?) and marimba , Musique rituelle inspired by the Bardo Thodol, the Tibetan book of the dead.
Very recently, the new cd triggered several programs on Dutch, belgian and French radio.

"Roy Bland"  isn't fluent in English I think. He just enjoys  giving us some quick insights into the most exotic, strange and unusual corners of our world. i like that!

[Symphonic Addict]

Speaking of Barraine...

To be released on 3 October:



Musique rituelle, for organ and percussion


Works for organ:
Premier prélude
Fugue en sol mineur sur un chant de prière israélite
Reflets magyars
Deuxième prélude
Fugue sur un chant juif
Élévation

[Roy Bland]

[kyjo]

Elsa Barraine is getting some attention recently: a cd (two symphonies/Elena Schwarz), Cristian Macelaru quite recently conducted her second symphony in Paris (I've posted the YT link at least twice I think...) ,YT has also an old French recording with Rosenthal.
https://youtu.be/X-7vYyQQAuM?si=axTXIhJ2Z-OFmILt
https://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,11592.msg1612017.html#msg1612017

Anyway, an interesting figure ( she was a communist - i wonder if her music will reach the USA...). personally I find the music I've listened to not "exceptional". Surely it is expertly made, I find it rather bland.
Late in life (1967) she wrote a very strange work for organ, tamtam(gongs?) and marimba , Musique rituelle inspired by the Bardo Thodol, the Tibetan book of the dead.
Very recently, the new cd triggered several programs on Dutch, belgian and French radio.

The other day I listened to the new CPO release of her Symphonies 1 and 2 plus the shorter orchestral works Pogromes and Musique funèbre pour la mise au tombeau de Titien. While most of the above music didn't elicit the "wow factor" in me, I wouldn't call any of it bland either. The two compact symphonies should appeal to fans of neoclassical, robust music along the lines of late Roussel and Honegger. I found the most interesting and individual work on the disc to be also the latest and most "advanced" in style - the Musique funèbre. In this work, Barraine uses the orchestra in a spare, chamber music-like manner, with a prominent part for the piano, to create a hauntingly "ritualistic" atmosphere. I certainly wouldn't mind hearing more of her music!