Georges Arnoux
Georges Arnoux (3 August 1891 – 11 November 1971) was a French composer with Breton nationalist leanings.
Life and music[]
Born in Paris, Arnoux was the descendant of a family originally from Switzerland. He studied harmony, counterpoint and composition with Vincent d'Indy at the Schola Cantorum de Paris.[1]
He was very interested in Brittany and its traditional music (he owned a house in Brignogan) and learned the Breton language. In the 1920s, he was involved with the Breton cultural movements ( in Paris, , Bleun Brug) and joined the Breton artistic movement Seiz Breur in 1939. From 1934 he argued for a conservatory of Breton music that never came to fruition.[2]
He died in Vevey, Switzerland.
Selected works[]
Compositions[]
Large-scale works
- Koroll ar vuhez hag ar maro, ballet work for orchestra (1939)
- Gethsemanie, "sacred poem" for soloists and orchestra (Radio-Lausanne, 1948)
- Suite pittoresque et brève, for string orchestra (1949)
Piano music
- Valse des Korrigans (1907)
- Voici la saison joyeuse du délicieux printemps (1920)
- Pages bretonnes (1938)
- Tarik lan la (1951)
Songs
- Noel des prisonniers (1923)
- 20 Chansons bretonnes (1933)
- Kanaouennou goueliou ar Bleun-Brug (several volumes, 1935–1939)
- Petites histoires bretonnes en huit chansons (1942)
- Chansons pour Martine (1948)
- Adieu Bretagne (1964)
Writings[]
- Conditions du répertoire musical breton (1934)
- "L'Harmonisation des chants populaires", in: La Bretagne à Paris, 11 April 1936
- Mathématique de la mise en scène (Paris, 1956)
- Science et musique (Nimes, 1956)
- Musique platonicienne (Paris, 1960)
- La Vache enchantée (Paris, 1961)
- Demain sera détruit (Lausanne, 1967)
References[]
Categories:
- 1891 births
- 1971 deaths
- 20th-century classical composers
- 20th-century French composers
- 20th-century French male musicians
- Breton musicians
- Breton nationalists
- French classical composers
- French male classical composers
- Musicians from Paris