René Emmanuel Baton ( FR. René-Emmanuel Baton , often used the René-Baton option, FR. Rhené-Baton ; September 5, 1879 , Courseulles-sur-Mer , Calvados department - September 23, 1940 , Le Mans ) - French composer and conductor .
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Biography
He spent his childhood in Brittany and later drew inspiration from the images and motifs of this region. He graduated from the Paris Conservatoire , a student of Andre Zhedalzha . In 1907 he led the choir in the Paris Opera-Comique , then led small orchestras in Bordeaux and Angers . In 1910 he led the Festival of French Music in Munich . In 1912 - 1913 He conducted the orchestra during the tour of the Russian ballet Dyagilev in London and South America. In 1914 - 1919 led the summer concerts of the Netherlands Residenz Orchestra in Scheveningen , in 1916 - 1918 , in addition, he led the Netherlands Royal Opera.
The most significant engagement of Rene Baton - leadership in 1918-1932. the revived orchestra of the Padla Concerts , designed to popularize academic music and at the same time not alien to new compositions. Rene Baton, in particular, conducted the premieres of the symphony for soloists, chorus and orchestra of Albert Roussel's “Spells” ( 1912 ), “Spring” by Claude Debussy ( 1913 ; the score of this early orchestral composition Debussy was lost, but the author’s transcription for voice and piano remained, which was again orchestrated in 1912 by Henri Bussset ), the author’s orchestral version of the “Tomb of Couperin” by Maurice Ravel ( 1920 ), the symphony “Agrestida” by Georges Migault ( 1922 ), the symphonic suite of Jean Krasus “The Board Journal” ( 1928 ), “Requiem” Guy Roparza ( 1939 ). The first in France to perform the famous play "Plant" Alexander Mosolov .
The second symphony of Albert Roussel and the symphonic poem “The Song of Nigamon” by Arthur Onegger are devoted to the loaf.
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- 2 1 2 3 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 13930147X // General Regulatory Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 International Music Score Library Project - 2006.