Maurice Thiriet (French: [tiʁjɛ]; 2 May 1906 – 28 September 1972) was a French composer of classical and film music.
Biography
[edit]Born in Meulan, Yvelines, Maurice Thiriet attended the Paris Conservatory from 1925 to 1931, studying counterpoint and fugue with Charles Koechlin, and orchestration and arrangement under Alexis Roland-Manuel. Thiriet's career revolved mainly around film music, completing around seventy scores from 1942 to 1960. A fellow composer Maurice Jaubert, whose life was cut short during World War II, is often cited as a major influence on Thiriet's outlook.
Besides his cinematic output, Thiriet also composed several concert works, including a concerto for the flute, twelve ballets, and three operas. His compositional style, which Jaubert and Roland-Manuel influenced, is characterized by taught construction and modest, nearly impressionistic harmonization, often bearing a neo-classical grace similar to that of the music of Francis Poulenc and Jean Françaix. Thiriet's work was also presented in the art competition during the 1948 Summer Olympics.[1] Thiriet also wrote La Nigérienne, the former national anthem of Niger, in 1961.
List of works
[edit]Stage and dramatic
[edit]- La Bourgois de Falaise – opera (1937)
- Psyché – ballet (1950)
- Herakles – ballet (1953)
- Œdipe-roi – sur le texte de Jean Cocteau for speaker and orchestra (1940–41) and on stage (1963)
- La véridique histoire du docteur – opéra comique (1937)
- La Locandiera – opéra-bouffe (1960)
- L'œuf à la coque – ballet (1949)
- Deuil en 24 heures – ballet (1953)
- La nuit vénitienne – ballet (1939)
- La chaloupée – ballet (1960)
- La chambre noire – ballet-bouffe (1955)
- La précaution inutile (sur des thèmes de Rossini) – ballet (1946)
- La reine des iles – ballet (1955)
- Le maure de Venise – ballet (1958)
- Les amants de Mayerling – ballet (1960)
- Les jeux de l'amour et du placard – ballet-opérette (1953)
- Messaline – théatre (1947)
- Vogue la galère – théatre (1952)
Orchestra
[edit]- Le Livre pour Jean (1929)
- Rhapsody on Inca Themes (1935)
- Poem, for strings (1936)
- La Nuit Fantasque (1941)
- Les visiteurs du soir (1947)
Concertante
[edit]- Introduction, Chanson et Ronde, harp and orchestra (1936)
- Flute Concerto, flute and string orchestra (1959)
Selected filmography
[edit]- Once Upon a Time (1933)
- Southern Mail (1937)
- Adrienne Lecouvreur (1938)
- The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (1938)
- The Man Who Played with Fire (1942)
- The Wolf of the Malveneurs (1943)
- Vautrin (1943)
- Pamela (1945)
- The Eternal Husband (1946)
- Not So Stupid (1946)
- Le Bataillon du ciel (1947)
- Eternal Conflict (1948)
- Three Boys, One Girl (1948)
- Du Guesclin (1949)
- Mystery in Shanghai (1950)
- Passion (1951)
- The House on the Dune (1952)
- The Air of Paris (1954)
- La Tour, prends garde ! (1958)
- Eyes of Love (1959)
References
[edit]- ^ "Maurice Thiriet". Olympedia. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
Sources
[edit]^ Mark Brill "Maurice Thiriet" in The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
External links
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