Maurice Thiriet

Maurice Thiriet (2 April 1906 – 28 September 1972) was a French composer of classical and film music.

Biography

Born in Meulan, Yvelines, he entered the Paris conservatory in 1925 to study counterpoint and fugue with Charles Koechlin and orchestration and arrangement under Alexis Roland-Manuel. He graduated in 1931. During the forties Thiriet carved his career within film music, inspired by fellow composer Maurice Jaubert (who died in World War II), and wrote something like twenty scores from 1942 to 1960. Apart from his film work, Thiriet also composed several concert works, including a Flute concerto, ten ballets and two operas. His style, which was influenced by Jaubert and Roland-Manuel, is characterized by taught construction and modest, nearly impressionistic harmonization and often bears a classical grace not unlike that of Francis Poulenc and Jean Françaix

List of works

Stage and Dramatic

• La Bourgois de Falaise, opera (1937)
• Psychè, ballet (1950)
• Herakles, ballet (1953)
• Oedipe-roi, for speaker and orchestra (1940–41)

Orchestra

• Le Livre pour Jean (1929)
• Rhapsody on Inca Themes (1935)
• Poem, for strings (1936)
• La Nuit Fantasque (1941)

Concertante

• Introduction, Chanson et Ronde, harp and orchestra (1936)
• Flute Concerto, flute and string orchestra (1959)

See also

• La Tour, prends garde ! (1958)

References

Mark Brill: Maurice Thiriet The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

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Name	Thiriet, Maurice
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Date of birth	2 April 1906
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Date of death	28 September 1972
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