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  Albert Roussel Summary
Albert Roussel was born in Tourcoing, a town close to the Belgian border, where his grandfather was mayor.
Igor Stravinsky was the chief exponent of neoclassicism, and Roussel was one of its principal exponents.
Roussel was also interested in jazz, and wrote a piano-vocal composition entitled Jazz dans la nuit, which makes an interesting contrast to some of the other jazz-inspired compositions by French composers at the same time (compare it, for example, with the second movement of the Ravel Violin Sonata, or Darius Milhaud's La Creation du Monde).
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 ALBERT ROUSSEL by David Wright MusicWeb(UK)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was born at Tourcoing in northern France, otherwise known as French Flanders, on 5 April 1869, the only child of wealthy French industrialists who specialised mostly in textiles.
Roussel was one of his first pupils at the newly founded Schola Cantorum.
Roussel was warned by his doctor to rest after a serious angina attack in the summer of 1936.
www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/2002/Sept02/Roussel.htm   (2615 words)

  
 ROUSSEL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Albert-Chalres-Paul-Marie Roussel (1869 - 1937) was one of the leading French composers of the era after World War I. He wrote in various styles and his work is notable for its lyrical fervour, austerity of technique, and harmonic audacity.
Roussel's music is impressionistic in its color and poetic allusion, but in its formal design and clarity it reflects the neoclassicism of the Russian-born composer Igor Stravinsky.
Roussel's mature style, employing both the modal harmonies of Oriental music and the dissonances of the contemporary idiom, is a reaction against French Impressionism as well as against the chromaticism of Franck.
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 ALBERT ROUSSEL by David Wright MusicWeb(UK)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was born at Tourcoing in northern France, otherwise known as French Flanders, on 5 April 1869, the only child of wealthy French industrialists who specialised mostly in textiles.
Roussel was one of his first pupils at the newly founded Schola Cantorum.
Roussel was warned by his doctor to rest after a serious angina attack in the summer of 1936.
www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2002/Sept02/Roussel.htm   (2609 words)

  
 Richmond Symphony   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Albert Roussel, a leading figure in French music during the years between the World Wars, was orphaned at an early age and raised first by his grandfather, the mayor of his native town of Tourcoing, at the Belgian border thirty miles from the North Sea, and later by a maternal aunt.
Roussel was appointed to teach the counterpoint class at the Schola beginning in 1902, and he remained in that post for the next dozen years; Eric Satie and Edgar Varèse were among his pupils.
Roussel’s life-long interest in music education was reflected in the composition that he left unfinished at his death, in 1937: a large theatrical piece involving workers’ choral groups.
www.richmondsymphony.com /note_AFrenchFantasy.htm   (3027 words)

  
 Albert Roussel: Chronology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In December, Roussel's music is performed for the first time: an Andante for violin, viola, cello and organ.
Roussel is at the pinnacle of his career.
Roussel dies of a heart attack on August 23 at Royan, France.
www.centosprime.com /~ehoornaert/roussel/chronol.htm   (493 words)

  
 Albert Roussel - Wikipedia
Sie gehören Roussels zweiter Schaffensphase an, die vom Impressionismus, vor allem dem Stil Maurice Ravels, beeinflusst ist.
Er zog sich zur Erholung nach Perros-Guirec in der Bretagne zurück, beendete dort Padmâvatî und schrieb 1919-21 seine zweite Sinfonie.
1922 erwarb Roussel ein Haus in Vasterival bei Varengeville an der normannischen Küste.
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Albert_Roussel   (594 words)

  
 Roussel, Resurrection. Op. 4
At the age of 25, Albert Roussel (1869-1937) left a promising career in the Navy to study music at Vincent d'Indy's Schola Cantorum.
Roussel became one of the most significant composers in France between the world wars, celebrated especially for his symphonies and ballets.
At the same time, Roussel combines these received procedures with elements of musical impressionism; in particular, the composer manipulates his material by varied repetition rather than systematic fragmentation and development.
www.americansymphony.org /dialogues_extensions/95_96season/5th_concert/roussel.cfm   (470 words)

  
 Albert Roussel — www.greenwood.com
Roussel, `one of the greatest French composers of this century,' has been also one of the most neglected.
The first major work in English since Basil Deane's critical biography, Albert Roussel (1961), this volume includes a brief biography, a list of works and performances classified by genre, a discography of commercially available recordings, and a selective annotated bibliography of nearly 400 writings by and about the composer.
While the majority of English-language works on Roussel have concentrated on the details of his life or attempted to define and analyze his compositional style, this first annotated bibliography and discography focuses on his opus and provides copious information about specific works, performances, recordings, and reviews.
www.greenwood.com /catalog/FTA%252f.aspx   (434 words)

  
 Albert ROUSSEL - Symphony No. 2 [RB]: Classical CD Reviews- Oct 2003 MusicWeb(UK)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Roussel found himself at odds with the impressionistic music he had written before 1914 and adopted a more objective style.
Roussel the pupil of D'Indy and the admirer of Debussy is evident in the Festin.
Roussel is now more in touch with de Falla although steering well clear of the whirlpool of neo-classicism.
musicweb-international.com /classrev/2003/Oct03/roussel_sy2festin.htm   (783 words)

  
 Directory - Arts: Music: Composition: Composers: R: Roussel, Albert Charles Paul Marie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Albert Roussel  · Selected works and brief biography with links to influences from Classical Composers Database.
Albert Roussel  · cached · Life, works, including text of selected songs, illustrations, and major influences.
Albert Roussel  · Extensive biography and study of his music by David C. Wright from MusicWeb(UK).
www.incywincy.com /default?p=221904   (192 words)

  
 Music of 19th Centruy Paris
Albert Roussel was born in Tourcoing, an industrial town in France.
Roussel completed his studies at Vincent d'Indy's Schola Cantorum at the age of 39.
Roussel's health was affected due to the fires.
gallery.sjsu.edu /paris/music/overview/roussel.html   (349 words)

  
 1/4/00: Film Score Alternative
Roussel, like many composers this century, dabbled in musical impressionism before turning towards neo-classicism but unlike many musicians he never subscribed to a school of thought and his work remained largely individualistic.
Roussel score attempts to create the drama and emotions of the small world but from the perspective of a detached observer.
Roussel then describes a series of dramatic episodes in which several creature characters - clumsy worms, two ponderously ferocious mantises, an innocent butterfly and a mayfly - enter the scene in turn and are lured by the spider into his web where he kills them and celebrates his victory with a self-satisfied dance.
www.filmscoremonthly.com /articles/2000/04_Jan---Film_Score_Alternative.asp   (1238 words)

  
 Greenwood Publishing Group I1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The first major work in English since Basil Deane's critical biography, Albert Roussel (1961), this volume includes a brief biography, a list of works and performances classified by genre, a discography of commercially available recordings, and a selective annotated bibliography of nearly 400 writings by and about the composer.
Although recognized as one of the greatest French composers of the twentieth century, Albert Roussel (1869-1937) has been frequently overlooked in recent years.
While the majority of English-language works on Roussel have concentrated on the details of his life or attempted to define and analyze his compositional style, this first annotated bibliography and discography focuses on his opus and provides copious information about specific works, performances, recordings, and reviews.
info.greenwood.com /books/0313255/031325558x.html   (435 words)

  
 Labelle, Nicole
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Albert Roussel's death, she published in 1987, in Paris, a critical edition of the Lettres et écrits of the composer, for which she was awarded the Prix René-Dumesnil of the Académie des Beaux-Arts (Institut de France) the following year.
Labelle has participated in several radio broadcasts in France and in Switzerland and has given lectures and delivered papers, notably during the international conference on Albert Roussel held at the Université Lumière-Lyon 2 in 1987.
She is a founding member of the Association pour la Fondation Albert Roussel (Tourcoing, France).
thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0001905   (318 words)

  
 ABC Albert Roussel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Albert Roussel (1869-1937) schreef zijn A Glorious Day in 1933 in opdracht van de American Band Society.
Roussel zou Roussel niet zijn als hij van zijn opdracht niet een vindingrijk en grillig werkstuk gemaakt had.
Overigens was Roussel, leerling van onder andere Vincent d'Indy, al 63 voor hij zich voor het eerst met het blaasorkest bezig hield.
www.amsterdams-blazers-collectief.net /componisten/roussel.html   (85 words)

  
 The 20th Century - Page 6   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Roussel had already started a naval career when he took to music at age 25.
Padmâvatí is the reworking of an Indian legend, with dance an important feature - Roussel himself called the work opera ballet.
Among the projects undertaken by Fauré was an opera to be called La tentation de Bouddha for which the poet Albert Samain wrote 750 stanzas, all for nought, and a collaboration with the symbolist poet Paul Verlaine on an opera about commedia dell'arte characters in a hospital.
home.prcn.org /pauld/opera/20cent06.htm   (490 words)

  
 The Infography about Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
The following sources are recommended by a librarian whose research specialty is composer Albert Roussel.
Albert Roussel, 1869-1937, Bibliothèque Nationale, 23 Sept-15 Oct, 1969.
Roussel issues: x/6 (1928-29); no. 178 (1937); no. 400-401, 1987.
www.infography.com /content/158530935718.html   (69 words)

  
 Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Roussel
Like Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Albert Roussel started life as a sailor and turned to music only after reaching adulthood.
(He finished his studies at the age of 38!) Despite this late start, all of Roussel's work is characterized by solid craftsmanship that was influenced by Claude Debussy's impressionism in his early works and by neo-classicism in his later works.
Roussel was probably the dominant French composer of the inter-war era.
www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/roussel.html   (204 words)

  
 Wat is er met Albert Roussel gebeurd?
Intussen had Roussel wel belangstelling voor muziek, had zelfs allerlei lessen gevolgd en besloot in 1894 zijn varende carrière voor de muziek te verruilen.
Van een klassieke invloed is in het Concertino voor cello en orkest uit 1936 ook in zekere mate sprake.
In het geval van Roussel lijkt de zeef van de tijd toch een beetje verstopt te zijn geweest toen zijn muziek werd 'gewogen'.
www.nopapers.nl /km/muz2/9/muze0931.html   (1024 words)

  
 tinh yeu - Viet99.com - Viet Search, Tim kiem, VN, Dictionary, Tu Dien, VINA, Vietnam, tin tuc, news, music, am nhac, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Albert Roussel - Life, works, including text of selected songs, illustrations, and major influences.
Albert Roussel - Selected works and brief biography with links to influences from Classical Composers Database.
Albert Roussel - Extensive biography and study of his music by David C. Wright from MusicWeb(UK).
viet99.com /danhba?c=Arts/Music/Composition/Composers/R/Roussel,_Albert_Charles_Paul_Marie   (148 words)

  
 France diplomatie - Une galerie de compositeurs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Orphelin issu d'une famille d'industriels du Nord, Albert Roussel est élevé par son grand-père, puis par un de ses oncles.
Interrompue par la guerre, que Roussel passe dans une section des transports à Verdun, la composition de son opéra Padmâvatî est achevée pour sa création, à l'Opéra, en 1923.
Albert Roussel n'est pas un artiste de l'effusion.
www.france.diplomatie.fr /culture/galerie_composit/roussel.html   (497 words)

  
 Bacchus et Ariane, Op. 43
Unlike Debussy and Ravel, who became known in their twenties, Roussel was a late bloomer.
Although he did compose a bit in his youth, he did not develop his own style until about the time of Debussy's death (1918), by which time he himself was nearly 50, and most of his important works were composed in the last dozen years of his life.
It is interesting beyond mere coincidence that these masterworks of both Ravel and Roussel are ballets based on legends from Greek antiquity, for underlying each of these composers' individual and forward-looking style was a strict and extremely self-critical discipline based on classical principles.
www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=composition&composition_id=3155   (441 words)

  
 NYU - Press Release
The turn-of-the-century composer Albert Roussel wrote an intriguing corpus of chamber music with flute.
The works for this instrument all date from his mature period of composition when his music was both economical and expressive.
Roussel's music contains several strands of French tradition: a neo-classic impulse towards formal structure, fascination with foreign, specifically Asian musical traditions (Indian, Javanese, Japanese) and their exotic rapport with French music, and the lighthearted, relatively popular boulevard and café music of casual enjoyment.
www.nyu.edu /publicaffairs/newsreleases/B_ROUSE.shtml   (251 words)

  
 Albert Roussel: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com
Albert Roussel: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more
Much of Roussel's work begins with detailed, intimate imagery and experiences, like the humor of an insect ballet in Le Festin d'Araignée or ancient dances in the tuneful and rhythmic Suite in F; but then he expands the music to vast seascapes or dramatic encounters.
Roussel, like his fellow impressionists Debussy and Ravel, is able to build rich orchestrations from seed fragments that seem to grow and occupy intersecting planes of sound, as in the Symphony no. 3 and the Rapsodie flamande.
music.com /person/albert_roussel/1   (214 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Albert Roussel (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Albert Roussel, Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biographies
Albert Roussel[Alber´ rOOsel´] Pronunciation Key, 1869–1937, French composer, studied with Vincent D'Indy.
More articles from AllRefer Reference on Albert Roussel
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 YOUNG PIANO TALENTS ARRIVE IN SOFIA FOR INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
The compulsory programme consists of one piece by Albert Roussel and one by a Bulgarian composer.
Pavlos Ialourakis, winner of the Albert Roussel Prize in 2000, will give a concert at the opening on February 6 with the Symphony Orchestra of the Musical Academy, under the baton of Angel Stankov.
The fifth international competition is organized by the Albert Roussel Foundation with support from the Institut Francais in Sofia, the Pancho Vladigerov Musical Academy, the Alfred Cortot higher musical school, and the Paris-based Albert Roussel Committee.
www.novinite.com /view_news.php?id=6516   (317 words)

  
 Albert Roussel - Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 [TH]: Classical CD Reviews- Nov 2002 MusicWeb(UK)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The big climactic outburst at 3.04 has a terrifying impact, and even the ragged ensemble that follows does not dim the effect.
The slow movement’s long-breathed opening melody, deliciously angular and plangent, suffers a little from the sour French oboe tone, though ironically this may well have been the sort of sound Roussel had in his mind as he wrote it.
I love Munch’s shaping of the little treading, Stravinskian ostinato at 2.59, though again playing is not as tight as one would like.
www.theclassicalsite.com /classrev/2002/Nov02/Roussel3and4.htm   (803 words)

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