Marcel Labey

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Marcel Labey (6 August 1875, Vésinet – 25 November 1968, Nancy) was a French 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 and , and harmony under René Lenormand. He met Vincent d'Indy 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 (1935-962). He was also secretary of France's Société nationale de musique.

His wife Charlotte Sohy (1887-1955), herself a student of Vincent d'Indy, composed a symphony, melodies, four string quartets and a lyric drama in 3 acts called L'Esclave Couronnée, which adapted a novel by Selma Lagerlöf and was put on at Mulhouse on 6 May 1947.

Marcel Labey, was a French conductor and composer.

Works[]

He rediscovered the "esprit franckiste" in his compositions.

Opera[]

Bérangère, liturgical drama in 3 acts (1911–1913 ; Le Havre, 12 April 1929)

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.

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