Théodore Dubois - Suite concertante pour violoncelle, piano et orchestre

Théodore Dubois

[테오도르 뒤부아]

Théodore Dubois, c. 1890, Bibliothèque nationale de France

(24 August 1837 – 11 June 1924) was a French composer, organist and music teacher.

Suite concertante pour violoncelle, piano et orchestre

1. Maestoso, sans lenteur
2. Allegro leggiero
3. Larghetto
4. Allegro

Marc Coppey, violoncelle
Orchestre Poitou-Charentes
Jean-François Heisser, piano and conductor

(Anna Mikulska - cello & Philippe Argenty - piano) and Atlantida Symphony directed by Manuel Tévar
21.06.2019, Guadalajara, Palacio Antonio de Mendoza

Théodore Dubois was born in Rosnay in Marne. He studied first under Louis Fanart (the choirmaster at Reims Cathedral) and later at the Paris Conservatoire under Ambroise Thomas. He won the Prix de Rome in 1861. In 1868, he became choirmaster at the Church of the Madeleine, and in 1871 took over from César Franck as choirmaster at the Basilica of Sainte-Clotilde. In 1877, Dubois returned to the Church of the Madeleine, succeeding Camille Saint-Saëns as organist there. From 1871 he taught at the Paris Conservatoire, where his pupils included Pierre de Bréville, Guillaume Couture, Gabrielle Ferrari, Gustave Doret, Paul Dukas, Achille Fortier, Xavier Leroux, Albéric Magnard, Édouard Risler, Guy Ropartz, Spyridon Samaras, and Florent Schmitt.

Dubois was director of the Conservatoire from 1896 (succeeding Thomas on the latter's death) to 1905, continuing his predecessor's intransigently conservative regime. The music of Auber, Halévy and especially Meyerbeer was regarded as the correct model for students, and old French music such as that of Rameau and modern music, including that of Wagner were kept rigorously out of the curriculum. Dubois was unremittingly hostile to Maurice Ravel who, when a Conservatoire student, did not conform to the faculty's anti-modernism, and in 1902 Dubois unavailingly forbade Conservatoire students to attend performances of Debussy's ground-breaking new opera, Pelléas et Mélisande. In June 1905 he was forced to bring his planned retirement forward after a public scandal caused by the faculty's blatant attempt to stop Ravel winning the Prix de Rome. Gabriel Fauré was appointed to succeed Dubois as director, with a brief from the French government to modernise the institution.