Émile Pierre Ratez

Émile Pierre Ratez (also René Emile Ratez) (1851–1934) was a French composer, administrator and violist.

Ratez was born in Besançon on 5 November 1851, and became a pupil of (Pierre?) De Mol at the music school there[1] and later, a pupil of Bazin and of Jules Massenet at the Conservatoire de Paris in the 1870s.[1] In 1891 he became the director of the Lille branch of the Paris Conservatory.[1]

He died in Lille 19 May 1934.[2]

His compositions include a fair amount of chamber music (at least three piano trios, a piano quintet, a cello sonata, at least two violin sonatas, a string trio, for example),[3] a suite for violin and piano,[4] two operas Lydéric (premiered 1895, Lille) and Paula (premiered 1904, Besançon)[5][6] and many songs and other choral and piano works (&c...)[7]

His 6 Characteristic Pieces have been republished by Billaudot.[8]

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 See Grandemusica.net (http://grandemusica.net/musical-biographies-r-1/ratez-emile-pierre ), Hubbard (The American History and Encyclopedia of Music: Musical biographies, p.194) and Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians 3rd Edition (1919) p.202 for identification of "Demol" in that article as either Pierre De Mol or his nephew François-Marie and Baker's p.742 for further biography of Ratez.
  2. ↑ "MusicSack". Retrieved January 26, 2014. One source (Opernlexikon) has August 1925.
  3. ↑ IMSLP; the cello sonata has not yet as of 2014 January been uploaded to IMSLP but is noted OCLC 842337860 (copy at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France); a piano trio in C major Op.24 not at IMSLP is also at BNF - OCLC 842337884
  4. ↑ OCLC 842337876
  5. ↑ "Opera Glass: Stanford: Composers "R"". Retrieved January 30, 2014.
  6. ↑ Vocal score of Lydéric published in 1896 by Alphonse Leduc. See the Bibliographie de la France, 26 December 1896 issue, page 833.
  7. ↑ Worldcat.
  8. ↑ See e.g. "Characteristic Piece Op.46 No.1 for Double-Bass and Piano". Billaudot via Boosey. Retrieved January 26, 2014.

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