Max d'Ollone

Maximilien-Paul-Marie-Félix d'Ollone was a French composer, born 13 June 1875 at Besançon and died in Paris 1959.^[1]

He started composing very early, entering the Paris Conservatoire at 6, winning many prizes, receiving the encouragement of Gounod, Saint-Saens, Massenet, Thomas and Delibes.^[2] His teachers at the Conservatoire were Lavignac, Massenet, Gédalge and Lenepveu; he won the Prix de Rome in 1897.

He was director of music in Angers, professor at the Paris Conservatoire and director of the Opéra-Comique. In 1932 he wrote three important articles for Le Ménestrel (29 July, 9 Decembre, 16 December) arguing for a more populist approach to composition.^[3]

His works include:

• Jean (opera in five acts, 1900-1905)
• Bacchus et Silène (ballet, 1901, Béziers)
• Le retour (drame lyrique in two acts to his own libretto, 1911, Angers)
• Les amants de Rimini (opera in four acts to his own libretto)
• L'etrangère (opera in two acts)
• Les uns et les autres (comédie lyrique in one act with text by Paul Verlaine, 6 November 1922, Opéra-Comique)
• L'Arlequin (comédie lyrique in five acts, 22 December 1924, Paris Opera)
• George Dandin (opéra comique in three acts after Molière, 1930)
• Le temple abandonné (one-act ballet, 1931, Monte Carlo)
• La Samaritaine (opera in three acts after Rostand, 1937, Paris)
• Olympe de Clèves (opera in four acts after Dumas, unpublished)

External links

• Free scores by Max d'Ollone at the International Music Score Library Project

References

1. ^ Langham Smith R. Max d'Ollone. In: New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Macmillan, London and New York, 1997.
2. ^ Landormy P. La musique française après Debussy. Gallimard, Paris, 1943.
3. ^ Landormy P, op cit.

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