Pierre Rousseau grew up in a household cultivating the arts and practicing famil

y music. Like its cousin Scellier Gisors (architect price of Rome), a cute penci
l stroke. When his parents took him to the Opera in a performance of Tannhuser, i
s the revelation. It is then student at Collge Stanislas.
His first attempts date back to 1903: "I became convinced that I had to avoid at
all costs amateurism and dilettantism. "So he studied counterpoint, fugue and c
omposition with Jean-Hugues Louvier friend of Widor.
Complying with the paternal example, he leads his medical training in parallel t
o completion and doing this job for life. "For me, medicine is only a makeshift.
" talented watercolorist, he visualizes his inspirations to better transcribe mu
sically, taking care never to offend listeners.
Assigned to the 117th line infantry regiment in 1914, he served as assistant doc
tor and knows the harsh conditions of the forehead. Through the village of Velos
nes, it is conquered by the absolute poetry site meusan and adopt its composer's
nickname. This music he blessed every day allows it to maintain confidence in a
period of doubts and reorientation. Florent Schmitt, he takes advice, wisely en
couraged to persevere.
Pierre Vellones teenager cello (1905). [Ref. necessary]
The composer and his wife in 1919 [ref. necessary]
Vellones Pierre and Maurice Martenot in 1936 [ref. necessary]
But fate is waiting for you. Diagnosed in 1926 by his great friend Lucien de Gen
nes, Kahler's disease (multiple myeloma) condemns the short term. Bedridden, he
then writes about the art of Tibet and a novel, Le Pr wolves. "It was almost two
years of retirement and concentration I known the price of conjugal love, kindne
ss, patience, and also the price of things of the spirit."
X-rays delay the progression of evil. Pierre Rousseau abandoned general practice
for electrotherapy practice it at home. Among its customers, he treated the pri
nce Sixtus de Bourbon-Parme, Gabriel Piern Maurice Palaeologus, Prince Louis II o
f Monaco, Paul Valery ...
His lively intellectual curiosity made him tackle all the arts and all genres. H
e composes instrumental music and melodies on poems by Verlaine, Mallarm, Samain,
Rimbaud, Fort and the Love Songs of Old China.
"I believe in the absolute necessity to rejuvenate the orchestra for future work
s, and this mainly by three factors: saxophone, drums, Martenot."
He soon developed a passion for research Aleksandr Mosolov, John Cage, for non-W
estern folk and dream of renovating musical writing by providing incredible soun
ds. The first work of this type is the Song of Songs (1925) by Jean Lahor (aka D
r. Henry Cazalis) that a vocal trio combines flute and bassoon.
"The jazz (...) was for me a revelation as violent as Tannhuser when I wore sailo
r collars." Certainly Indy, Debussy, Soler-Casabon had used the saxophone in cla
ssical orchestra, but only he really explores and exploits its wealth. In 1929,
it uses two saxophones with four harps and bass to accompany his five poems by M
allarme and composes the Fables of Florian for tenor and symphonic jazz. Follow
Andalusian Horsemen (1930) for saxophone quartet, Concerto for saxophone and orc
hestra (1934), Rastelli (1937) tribute to the famous juggler disappeared in 1931
, Prelude and Rondo French (1937), Rhapsody (1937).
It is also the first French composer (and second in the world) to use the ondes

Martenot: his Fantasy date 1930. The extraordinary Vitamin and waltz gypsy Split
employ simultaneously saxophone quartet and waves in 1935.
Father of attentive family, he is interested in pedagogy and musical awareness o
f children with piano collection In the garden of beasts (1929), adopted by the
school Marguerite Long, and in which he mixes the charm of notes the humor of hi
s words. Loup, little brother is a Scout song of 1931. An adventure of Babar, fo
r the Theatre of Uncle Sebastian in 1936, mimics waves different animal sounds.
He never triumphed at
nder as his operettas
hown) has its part to
films (with Casanova
no, white Prosecution

the scene (his ballets besieged Granada and the Land of Te

Their Majesties and small doctor my heart has never been s
the success of several documentaries and more than fifteen
Saturnin Fabre, The Queen of Biarritz with Marguerite More
of marcel ichac with Maurice Baquet, etc.).

His last years mark the peak of

mind and business that are not
r, orchestrator with prodigious
inherited from Faur and Ravel,
ks.

his artistic career. "He has proven qualities of

so common" (Andrew George). Inexhaustible creato
facilities, innovative, respectful of tradition
he left more than a hundred ardent and sincere wor

More than in Spain that permeates many of its titles, he is drawn like all his g
eneration by the inaccessible and magical East. Commissioned for the Exhibition
of 1937, its fantastic festival, water and light extravaganza, moult uses exotic
instruments made available by the Museum of Ethnography: sarong Javanese, Chine
se cymbal, African drums, rattle seed Cameroon, etc. . to which three deputy Mar
tenot.
Pierre component Vellones 1938 [ref. necessary]
The same year, he illustrates the Karakoram film marcel ichac, the French expedi
tion to the Himalayas with - for the first time in cinema - a set of seven ondes
Martenot, piano and traditional percussion instruments. Working to forget his e
vil, the profusion of ideas that spring from his imagination never fails. The ac
tion of his great ballet Amitabha's Paradise (1938) in which he conceives the ar
gument, music, costumes, scenery, takes place in Tibet, a country he has studied
for ten years. Chef Philippe Gaubert and choreographer Serge Lifar think about
the greater good but - while accepted at the Opera Reading Committee - the balle
t has yet emerged ...
Overworked, anemic, Peter gradually declining, surrounded by the affection of hi
s people, and waives any occupation in 1939. On 17 July, writes Gustave Samazeui
lh it "disappears without realizing its full potential. But his works are there
to affirm the highest quality of its merits and perpetuate the memory of a elite
. "
He is buried in Montparnasse Cemetery, Section 26, in Paris
Vellones tomb in Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris
This born musician, writer, painter and physician synthesizes the spirit of the
interwar period, where tradition and innovation coexisted harmoniously.
Stravinsky as much as Ravel held him in high esteem. Gabriel Piern, Albert Wolff,
Eugne Bigot, Pedro de Freitas Branco directed his works. Lily Laskine, Maxence L
arrieu, Marcel Mule, Claire Croiza Jeanne Bathori, Pierre Bernac, Francis Poulen
c defended it.
Discography [edit | modify the code]
Rhapsody, Vitamins, fantastic festival, Karaokam, Mitou, Andalusian Cavaliers, c

hromatic Valse, by Marcel Mule, Lily Laskine, Pierre Bernac, Francis Poulenc, th
e Quartet of the Republican Guard, the Ensemble Maurice Martenot, dir. Maurice J
aubert. APV.1997-001
Concerto in F, Rastelli, Prelude and Rondo French, Sevillanas, Persian Entertain
ment, Paul Wehage, the Radio and Television Orchestra of Krakow, dir. Jos Maria F
lorencio jr. APV.1999-002
In the garden of beasts, an adventure of Babar, Invitation to the Music, Theatre
of Puppets, by Theresa Malengreau and Luc De Vos. CYPRESS 1611
Melodies and parts for saxophones, by Franois Le Roux, Hanna Schaer, Lee Christma
s. REM 311303
Trio and piano pieces, by Genevive Ibanez and Odette Chaynes-Decaux. XCP 332986
complete works for saxophone quartet by all 4uatre. DAPHENEO 9601
References [change | modify the code]
? Digital archive of Vital Paris, birth No. 14/1576/1889 (accessed January 2, 20
13)
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On the other Wikimedia projects:
Pierre Vellones, Wikimedia Commons
Sources and References [change | modify the code]
Serge Vellones Pierre Vellones twenty years of musical life of Paris, Geneva, ed
. Slatkine, 1981 Document used for writing
"Vellonnes Pierre (Pierre Rousseau said)," in Sax, Mule & Co, Jean-Pierre Thioll
et, H & D, Paris, 2004, pp. 184-185
Document used for writing document used as a source for writing this article.
External links [edit | modify the code]
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authority records: Virtual International Authority File
ce University documentation system
Library of Congress
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rity file
Official site
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