Paule Maurice was a French composer born in Paris

Paris

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 September 29, 1910 to Raoul Auguste Alexandre Maurice and Marguerite Jeanne Lebrun and died August 18, 1967 in Paris. Her full name was Paule Charlotte Marie Jeanne Maurice. Registration lists at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris report that her father was an office worker and state only that the two were married.

Her most famous composition is Tableaux de Provence pour saxophone et orchestre

Tableaux de Provence

Tableaux de Provence is a programmatic work composed by Paule Maurice between 1948 and 1955 for alto saxophone and orchestra, most often performed with piano accompaniment only. It was dedicated to French saxophone virtuoso, Marcel Mule...

written between 1948 and 1955 dedicated to saxophone virtuoso, Marcel Mule

Marcel Mule

Marcel Mule was a French classical saxophonist.Marcel Mule was known worldwide as one of the great classical saxophonists, and many pieces were written for him, premiered by him, and arranged by him. Many of these pieces have become staples in the classical saxophone repertoire...

. It is most often heard as a piano reduction. It was premiered on December 9, 1958 by Jean-Marie Londeix

Jean-Marie Londeix

Jean-Marie Londeix is a French saxophonist born in Libourne who studied saxophone, piano, harmony and chamber music.Jean-Marie Londeix studied saxophone with the legendary Marcel Mule at the Paris Conservatory. He also studied with Fernand Oubradous and Norbert Dufourcq, among others...

 with the Orchestre Symphonique Brestois directed by Maurice's husband, and fellow composer, Pierre Lantier

Pierre Lantier

Pierre Lantier was a composer, pianist, and husband of Paule Maurice. Lantier wrote Sicilienne pour saxophone alto et piano.His compositions also include three for piano and orchestra....

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Maurice's other compositions include Suite pour quatour de flutes, Volio, Cosmorama, Concerto pour piano et orchestre, Memoires de un chat, Trois pieces pour violon, and many more. There are more titles catalogued in the library of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris where Maurice studied and spent her professional life. Paule Maurice's teachers included Jean Gallon

Jean Gallon

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 (Harmony), Noël 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 and Fugue) and Henri Büsser

Henri Büsser

Henri Büsser was a French classical composer, organist, and conductor.- Biography :Paul-Henri Büsser was born in Toulouse, of partly Teutonic ancestry. He entered the Conservatoire in Paris in 1889; there he studied organ with César Franck and composition with Ernest Guiraud...

 (Composition). From 1933 to 1947 Maurice was Jean Gallon's teaching assistant. She received first prize of harmony in 1933, second prize of fugue in 1934, and in 1939 received first prize in composition. In 1942, Maurice was appointed Professor of Déchiffrage (sight-reading), and in 1965 became Professor of Harmonic Analysis at l'Ecole Normale de Musique. Maurice taught many students who became professors to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with some winning the Prix de Rome (saxame.org). Paule Maurice and Pierre Lantier

Pierre Lantier

Pierre Lantier was a composer, pianist, and husband of Paule Maurice. Lantier wrote Sicilienne pour saxophone alto et piano.His compositions also include three for piano and orchestra....

 wrote a treatise on harmony entitled Complement du Traite d'Harmonie de Reber and became an important reference work in France and abroad. It was intended to be used in conjunction with the 1862 treatise of Napolean Henri Reber entitled Traite d'Harmonie. The impact of Stravinsky, Debussy, and Ravel created the need to update harmonic analysis.

List of works

Works list derived from Paule Maurice's 1960 curriculum vitae (professional biography) on www.saxame.org:

• Symphonie
• Concerto pour piano et orchestre
• Concerto giocoso (piano et orchestre)
• 2 ballets (" Cosmorama " ­Commande de l’État- ; " Idylle exotique ")
• Poème symphonique (" L’Embarquement pour Cithère " ­Commande de l’État-)
• Tableaux de Provence
  Tableaux de Provence
  Tableaux de Provence is a programmatic work composed by Paule Maurice between 1948 and 1955 for alto saxophone and orchestra, most often performed with piano accompaniment only. It was dedicated to French saxophone virtuoso, Marcel Mule...
  
  ; suite pour saxophone
• Quatuor de flûtes
• Quatuor à cordes
• Trio pour anches
• 3 Suites d’orchestre (" Quartier latin ", " Tourisme ", Night Club chez Belzébuth "
• Suite pour 2 pianos (9 pièces)
• Variations pour piano
• 5 Pièces pour piano (Ed. DURAND)
• 9 Pièces pour piano (LEDUC)
• 6 Pièces pour piano (P. NOËL)
• 5 Préludes pour piano (FONGÈRES)
• 3 Pièces violon piano (NOËL)
• Mélodies (NOËL)
• Musiques de scène (" Les caprices de Marianne ", " On ne badine pas avec l¹amour ", Watheau ", " Patounet " )
• Pièces pour flûte
• Pièces pour saxophone
• Pièces pour clarinette
• Chœurs mélodies

In preparation at the time of her 1960 curriculum vitae : Suite pour 2 pianos et orchestre.

Compositions documented by academic database World Cat:

• Tableaux de Provence
• Suite pour quatour de flutes
• Volio (saxophone etude)
• Memoires d'un chat
• Concerto pour piano et orchestre
• Cosmorama
• Trois pieces pour violon

Awards

Compositions awarded prizes:

• Plusieurs œuvres ont été primées.
• Prix HALPHEU (Composition) ;
• Prix du Congrès Marial de Boulogne pour une Cantate ;
• Prix pour l’ensemble de la composition féminine ;
• Prix du public et du Jury aux Concerts PASDELOUP ;
• Prix Georges HUE pour la mélodie.

External links

• http://www.paulemaurice.com
• http://studentsofpaulemaurice.ning.com
• http://www.jm-londeix.com/en/index.htm
• Paule Maurice's 1960 curriculum vitae
• http://mediatheque.cnsmdp.fr/OPACWebAloes/OPAC/index.aspx?IdPage=33
• http://www.saxame.org
• http://www.di-arezzo.es/partituras-de-Paule+Maurice.html
• http://www.musimem.com/recherches.html
• http://www.musimem.com/obi-0997-0898.htm