Maurice Thiriet

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

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[edit] Biography

Born in Meulan, Ile-de-France, 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 bares a classical grace not unlike that of Francis Poulenc and Jean Francaix

[edit] List of Works

[edit] Stage

  • La Bourgois de Falaise, opera (1937)
  • Psychè, ballet (1950)
  • Herakles, ballet (1953)

[edit] Orchestra

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

[edit] Concertante

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