Charles Koechlin

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Koechlin, Charles

Born Nov. 27, 1867, in Paris; died Dec. 31, 1950, in Le Rayol-Canadel-sur-Mer, Var Department. French composer, musicologist, and public figure.

In 1897, Koechlin graduated from the Paris Conservatory, where he was a student of J. Massenet and G. Fauré. Among his compositions are operas, ballets, symphonic and instrumental chamber music, piano pieces, and art songs, as well as choral works, including Libérons Thaelmann for chorus and orchestra (1934). He was a prominent figure in the Popular Music Federation, one of the founders of the society France-USSR, and chairman of the latter’s music section. Koechlin wrote works on the theory and history of music and also taught. (His pupils included the composers F. Poulenc and H. Sauguet.)

REFERENCES

Shneerson, G. Frantsuzskaia muzyka XX veka, 2nd ed. Moscow, 1970.
Renaudin, P. C. Koechlin. (Notice biobibliographique.) Paris, 1952.

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A group of songs by Charles Koechlin follows, including his unforgettable, "Si tu le veux.

Chansons Perpetuelles

Charles Koechlin, for example, speculated that "the most probable parents of Pelleas are Boris Godunov and Le Rhte" (p.

Pelleas et Melisande, cent ans apres: Etudes et documents

As a soloist and artistic director he was respected by important composers such as Charles Koechlin, Raymond Chevreuille, and Marius Flothuis (whom he met in Sachsenhausen), and was a personal friend of Pierre Boulez.

Georges Carael (1911-2010)

The younger composer Charles Koechlin mused, "Is not this admirable song the dream of an ageing man on a beautiful summer night--dreaming that his soul will go and dissolve into the great soul of the world?

La chanson d'Eve--Faure and the poet of paradise

Le Portrait de Daisy Hamilton, Opus 140, Volumes 1 and 2, by Charles Koechlin, edited and arranged for piano by Robert Orledge.

Le Portrait de Daisy Hamilton, Opus 140, Volumes 1 and 2

On one she partners cellist Yo Yo Main a French recital (Sony), another is a solo recital of the Frenchmen Charles Koechlin (Chandos) and a third is entitled Hot Music by Erwin Schulhoff.

CLASSICAL: Classical pieces from the jazz age

A hint of some of the other generic issues is given by the composer Charles Koechlin in his article on the melodie for Rohozinski's celebratory Cinquante ans de musique francaise de 1874 a 1925 (Paris, 1925).

Chronologisch-thematisches Verzeichnis samtlicher Werke von Daniel Francois Esprit Auber (AWV), Band 1.1-2

After the death of the organist Charles Shatto on New Year's Day 1983, the University of California at Berkeley (UCB) inherited a substantial collection of manuscripts by Shatto himself, his wife Catherine Urner (1891-1942), and their composition teacher and mentor, Charles Koechlin (1867-1950).

Charles Koechlin, Catherine Urner, and the Shatto-Urner manuscript collection at the University of California, Berkeley

The highlight of chapter 6, "Polytonality, Counterpoint, and Instrumentation," is Kelly's emphasis on the often-overlooked composer Charles Koechlin, whom she credits with inspiring Milhaud to grant instrumentation a crucial role in the polytonal juxtaposition of horizontal lines.

Tradition and Style in the Works of Darius Milhaud 1912-1939

Robert Orledge addresses the knotty topic of Ravel's "exotic" (he is eminently qualified, of course; recall his fine studies of Debussy and Charles Koechlin: Debussy and the Theatre [Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982] and Charles Koechlin (1867-1950): His Life and Works [Chur, Switzerland and New York: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1989]).

The Cambridge Companion to Ravel. (Composers)

He notes that Charles Koechlin is "coming into his own with the public as a composer of real individuality" (p.

A French Song Companion. (Book Reviews)

Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes puts in an appearance only at the very end, and Camille Saint-Saens (who was just as reactionary and opinionated as d'Indy) and Charles Koechlin (another important independent and SMI activist) receive no more than passing mention.

French Cultural Politics and Music: From the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War