Georges Dandelot
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Georges Dandelot et the piano at the École Normale de Musique de Paris in 1925
Georges Édouard Dandelot (b. Paris, Dec. 2, 1895 –- d. Saint-Georges-de-Didonne (Charente-Maritime), Aug. 17, 1975) was a French composer.
Biography
Dandelot's father was Alfred Dandelot, and his mother was the daughter of a piano maker. Dandelot studied at the Paris Conservatory under Émile Schwartz, Louis Diémer, Xavier Leroux, Jean Gallon, Georges Caussade, Charles-Marie Widor, Vincent D'Indy, Maurice Emmanuel, Paul Dukas, and Albert Roussel. After serving in World War I, he began teaching piano in 1919 at the École Normale de Musique de Paris; from 1942 he taught harmony at the Paris Conservatory, and published treatises on solfege and harmony. Among his pupils were composers Paul Méfano, Michel Perrault, and Michel Philippot.
Selected compositions
Orchestral works
- Pax, Oratorio for vocal soloists, chorus and orchestra (1937)
- Symphonie en d minor (1941)
- Concerto pour piano (1934)
- Concerto romantique pour violon et orchestre (1944)
Chamber music
- String quartet
- Trois valses à 2 pianos
- Sonatine pour flûte et piano (1938)
- Sonatine pour piano et violon (1946)
- Sonatine pour trompette (1961)
Ballets
- Le Souper de famine
- Le Jardin merveilleux
- La Création (1948)
Operas
- L'Ennemi, opera in 3 acts
- Midas, opéra-comique bouffe in 3 acts (1948)
- Apolline, operetta in 3 acts
References
- Don Randel, The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Harvard, 1996, p. 195.
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