Marcel Labey
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.
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.
External links[]
- (in French) Marcel Labey
- (in French) Breton composers
- Free scores by Marcel Labey at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- 1875 births
- 1968 deaths
- French composers
- French male composers
- French conductors (music)
- French male conductors (music)
- Schola Cantorum de Paris alumni