biography
pronunciation:
[kaplay]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1878–1925)
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| biography:
| Composer and conductor, born in Le Havre, NW France. He played the violin in the theatre at Le Havre, then entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1896. He was awarded the Prix de Rome (1901) with his cantata Myrrha. Assistant to Edouard Colonne, he directed the premiere of the Martyre de St Sébastien in 1913; Debussy assigned to him a part of its orchestration. Head of the Boston Orchestra (1910–14), he cut down his activities after being gassed in the war, but continued to conduct at the Opéra (1919), the Concerts Lamoureux (1920), and at Pasdeloup (1922). His works include Septuor pour quatuor à cordes et trois voix de femmes, the religious Musique de Jésus (1923), and melodies increasingly tinged by the esoteric. |
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