Tony Aubin
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Tony Louis Alexandre Aubin (8 December 1907 in Paris
– 21 September 1981 in Paris) was a French
composer.
From 1925 to 1930 Aubin studied at the Paris Conservatory under Samuel Rousseau (music theory), Noel Gallon
(counterpoint), Philippe Gaubert
(orchestration and composition), and Paul Dukas
(composition). He was awarded the Prix de Rome
for the cantata Actaeon in 1930. He was artistic director at Paris Mondial from 1937-1944, and professor at the Paris Conservatory from 1944 to 1977. He also conducted works for French radio between 1945 and 1960. His works, heavily indebted to the impressionism of Ravel and Dukas, include a large number of film scores.
His pupils included Olivier Alain
, Garbis Aprikian
, Raynald Arseneault
, Jocelyne Binet
, Jacques Castérède
, Pierre Cochereau
, Marius Constant
, Ginette Keller
, Talivaldis Kenins
, Ron Nelson
and Makoto Shinohara
.
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
– 21 September 1981 in Paris) was a French
France
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composer.
From 1925 to 1930 Aubin studied at the Paris Conservatory under Samuel Rousseau (music theory), Noel Gallon
Noël Gallon
Noël Gallon was a French composer and music educator. His compositional output includes several choral works and vocal art songs, 10 preludes, a Toccata for piano, a Sonata for flute and bassoon, a Fantasy for piano and orchestra, an Orchestral Suite, and the lyrical drama Paysans et Soldats...
(counterpoint), Philippe Gaubert
Philippe Gaubert
Philippe Gaubert was a French musician who was a distinguished performer on the flute, a respected conductor, and a composer, primarily for the flute....
(orchestration and composition), and Paul Dukas
Paul Dukas
Paul Abraham Dukas was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher. A studious man, of retiring personality, he was intensely self-critical, and he abandoned and destroyed many of his compositions...
(composition). He was awarded the Prix de Rome
Prix de Rome
The Prix de Rome was a scholarship for arts students, principally of painting, sculpture, and architecture. It was created, initially for painters and sculptors, in 1663 in France during the reign of Louis XIV. It was an annual bursary for promising artists having proved their talents by...
for the cantata Actaeon in 1930. He was artistic director at Paris Mondial from 1937-1944, and professor at the Paris Conservatory from 1944 to 1977. He also conducted works for French radio between 1945 and 1960. His works, heavily indebted to the impressionism of Ravel and Dukas, include a large number of film scores.
His pupils included Olivier Alain
Olivier Alain
Olivier Alain was a French organist, pianist, musicologist and composer.- Life :Olivier Alain was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris, into a musical family. His father was the organist and composer Albert Alain , as well as his elder brother Jehan Alain , and his sister, French organist...
, Garbis Aprikian
Garbis Aprikian
Garbis Aprikian is a musician from the Armenian Diaspora. He composed many vocal and instrumental works in which Western musical technique marries Armenian melodies. As a performer, Garbis Aprikian has directed for about fifty years the Armenian mixed chorus of Paris Sipan-Komitas...
, Raynald Arseneault
Raynald Arseneault
Raynald Arseneault was a Canadian composer and organist. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre, his compositional output consists of more than 50 works. His style was particularly influenced by Ivan Wyschnegradsky and Giacinto Scelsi; both of whom he met with in Europe during the 1970s...
, Jocelyne Binet
Jocelyne Binet
Jocelyne Binet was a Canadian composer, pianist, and music educator. She studied in Montreal and Paris, France, and returned to compose and teach music in Canada.-Biography:...
, Jacques Castérède
Jacques Castérède
Jacques Castérède is a French composer.He studied at Lycée Buffon in Paris. He gained his baccalaureat in elementary mathematics, before he entered Paris National Conservatory of Music in 1944 and began studying piano under Armand Ferté, composition under Tony Aubin, analysis under Olivier Messiaen...
, Pierre Cochereau
Pierre Cochereau
Pierre Eugène Charles Cochereau , was a French organist, improviser, composer, and pedagogue.- Biography :Pierre Cochereau was born on July 9, 1924 in Saint-Mandé, near Paris. In 1929, after a few months of violin instruction, he began to take piano lessons with Marius-François Gaillard...
, Marius Constant
Marius Constant
Marius Constant was a Romanian-born French composer and conductor. Known primarily for his television soundtracks, his most widely heard score was the iconic Twilight Zone theme song....
, Ginette Keller
Ginette Keller
-Biography:Keller studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Nadia Boulanger, Tony Aubin and Olivier Messiaen. In 1951 she won the Second Prix de Rome with her cantata Et l’Homme vit se rouvrir les portes...
, Talivaldis Kenins
Talivaldis Kenins
Tālivaldis Ķeniņš was a Canadian composer born in Latvia.Kenins's father was a lawyer, poet and government official, and his mother was a journalist. He first began playing piano at the age of five, and his first compositions followed at age eight...
, Ron Nelson
Ron Nelson
Ron Nelson is a composer of both classical and popular music and a retired music academic.-Biography:A native of Joliet, Illinois, Ron Nelson was born December 14, 1929. He studied composition at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester earning a bachelor's degree in 1952, a...
and Makoto Shinohara
Makoto Shinohara
is a Japanese composer.- Biography :Shinohara studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts from 1952 to 1954, studying composition with Tomojiro Ikenouchi, piano with Kazuko Yasukawa, and conducting with Akeo Watanabe and Kurt Woess. From 1954 to 1960, he studied in Paris with Tony Aubin, Olivier...
.
Works
- Piano Sonata, 1930
- Quatuor à cordes, 1930/1933
- Prélude, Récitatif et Finale for piano, 1930/1933
- Six poèmes de Verlaine, 1932/1933
- Cressida, Melodrama, 1934
- 1. Sinfonie "Romantique", 1935/1937
- Le sommeil d'Iskender, 1936
- Cantilène variée for cello and piano, 1937
- La Chasse infernale (Le chevalier Pécopin), Scherzo Symphonique, 1941/1942
- Jeanne d'Arc à Orléans, Oratorio, 1942
- Suite danoise, 1942/1945
- Athalie, 1943
- Symphony No. 2, 1944
- François Villon, 1945
- Fourberies, Ballet, 1950/1952
- Variations on a theme of Franz SchubertFranz SchubertFranz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
, Ballet, 1953 - Grand pas on a theme of Johannes BrahmsJohannes BrahmsJohannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...
, Ballet, 1953 - Suite éolienne for flute, clarinet, and orchestra, 1956
- Périls, Lyrical drama, 1956/1958
- La Source, 1960
- Hymne à d'espérance, 1961
- Concertinetto for violin and piano, 1964
- Concertinetto del amicizia for flute and piano, 1965
- Concertino della Brughiera for bassoon and piano, 1966/1975
- Divertimento del incertezza for clarinet and piano or orchestra, 1967/ 1973
- La jeunesse de Goya, Opera, 1968/1970
- Concertino delle scoiattolo for oboe, piano and strings, 1970
- Au fil de l'eau, 1970
- Toccatrotta, 1972
- Hidalgoyas for guitar, 1975
- Passacaglia dell'addio for viola and piano (1977)
Filmography
- 1941 : Le pavillon brûleLe Pavillon brûleLe Pavillon brûle is a French comedy drama film from 1941, directed by Jacques de Baroncelli, written by Solange Térac, starring Pierre Renoir and Jean Marais.- Plot :Ramsay, an engineer, works in a mine of copper in the French colonies...
(Jacques de BaroncelliJacques de BaroncelliJacques de Baroncelli was a French film director best known for his silent films from 1915 to the late 1930s....
) - 1942 : À l'assaut des Aiguilles du Diable (Marcel Ichac)
- 1943 : Les Ailes blanches
- 1943 : Le CorbeauLe CorbeauLe Corbeau is a 1943 French film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. The film was notable for causing serious trouble to its director after World War II because it had been produced by Continental Films, a German production company established in France in the early months of the war, and because...
(Henri-Georges ClouzotHenri-Georges ClouzotHenri-Georges Clouzot was a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best remembered for his work in the thriller film genre, having directed The Wages of Fear and Les Diaboliques, which are critically recognized to be among the greatest films from the 1950s...
) - 1943 : Sondeurs d'abîmes (Marcel Ichac)
- 1943 : Ceux du rivage
- 1944 : La Collection Ménard
- 1952 : Groenland, 20 000 lieues sur les glaces (Marcel IchacMarcel IchacMarcel Ichac was a French alpinist, explorer, photographer and film director. Born in Rueil, France, Ichac was one of the first people to introduce electronic music in cinema with Ondes Martenot for Karakoram and released the first French movie in CinemaScope, Nouveaux Horizons .- Filmography...
/Jean-Jacques Languepin) - 1952 : Victoire sur l'Annapurna (Marcel Ichac)
- 1966 : Illusions perdues