TRAITÉ DE L'ORCHESTRATION par Koechlin. 4V Musicology. 1954-9 Orchestration

Description: TRAITÉ DE L'ORCHESTRATION par Koechlin. 4V Musicology. 1954-9 Orchestration TRAITÉ DE L'ORCHESTRATION en quatre volumes par CHARLES KOECHLIN Volume 1: A} Etude des instruments et B) Equilibre des sonorités Volume 2: Ecriture des divers groupes Volume 3: Orchestration proprement dite Volume 4: Suite du précéden Paris, Editions Max Eschig, 1954-1959. Four volumes. Wrappers, large quartos, iv, 322, [1]; viii, 443, [1]; vi, 318, [1]; viii, 409 pages. Very scarce complete set. Charles-Louis-Eugène Koechlin (27 November 1867 – 31 December 1950), commonly known as Charles Koechlin, was a French composer, teacher and musicologist. Among his better known works is Les Heures persanes, a set of piano pieces based on the novel Vers Ispahan by Pierre Loti and The Seven Stars Symphony, a 7 movement symphony where each movement is themed around a different film star (all Silent era stars) who were popular at the time of the piece's writing (1933). After his graduation Koechlin became a freelance composer and teacher. Beginning in 1921 he regularly corresponded with Catherine Murphy Urner, a former student of his who lived in California. In 1909 he began regular work as a critic for the Chronique des Arts and in 1910 was one of the founders, with Ravel, of the Société musicale indépendante, with whose activities he was intensely associated. From its inception in the early 1930s to his death he was a passionate supporter of the International Society for Contemporary Music, eventually becoming President of its French section. From 1937 he was elected President of the Fédération Musicale Populaire. At first comfortably off, he divided his time between Paris and country homes in Villers-sur-Mer and the Côte d'Azur, but after the onset of World War I his circumstances were gradually reduced; he had to sell one of his houses and in 1915 began working as a lecturer and teacher. Partly because of his constant advocacy of younger composers and new styles, he was never successful in his attempts to gain a permanent teaching position for himself, though he was an examiner for many institutions (e.g. the Conservatoires of Brussels, Rheims and Marseilles). His application to be professor of counterpoint and fugue at the Paris Conservatoire in 1926 was rejected 20 votes to 2 (the two being Albert Roussel and Maurice Emmanuel), but from 1935 to 1939 he was allowed to teach fugue and modal polyphony at the Schola Cantorum de Paris. He visited the US four times to lecture and teach: in 1918–19, 1928, 1929 and 1937. On the second and third visits he taught at the University of California, Berkeley, through arrangements made by Catherine Murphy Urner, who afterward lived with him until 1933. On the 1929 visit his symphonic poem La Joie païenne won the Hollywood Bowl Prize for Composition and was performed there under the baton of Eugene Goossens. Even so, Koechlin had to pay for the preparation of orchestral parts, and in the 1930s he sank most of his savings into organizing performances of some of his orchestral works. In the 1940s, however, the music department of Belgian Radio took up his cause and broadcast several premieres of important scores including the first complete performance of the Jungle Book cycle. He died aged 83 at his country home at Le Canadel, Var, and his body is buried there. Some of his papers are housed at the University of California at Berkeley Library, donated by Catherine Urmer's husband Charles Rollins Shatto. In 1940, the French government offered him the award of Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, but he refused it. As teacher and author Koechlin began assisting Fauré in teaching fugue and counterpoint while he was still a student in the 1890s, but though he taught privately and was an external examiner for the Paris Conservatoire throughout his career, he never occupied a permanent salaried teaching position. Composers who studied with him included Germaine Tailleferre, Roger Désormière, Francis Poulenc and Henri Sauguet. Cole Porter studied orchestration with him in 1923–24. Darius Milhaud, though never a pupil, became a close friend and considered he learned more from Koechlin than any other pedagogue. Koechlin wrote three compendious textbooks: one on Harmony (3 vols, 1923–26), one on Music Theory (1932–34) and a huge treatise on the subject of orchestration (4 vols, 1935–43) which is a classic treatment of the subject. Koechlin's treatise uses examples from the orchestral repertoire of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, in particular including examples form French composers, such as Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Chabrier, Bizet, Fauré, Ravel, and Koechlin himself. Debussy chose Koechlin to complete the orchestration of his ballet Khamma. Koechlin completed this in 1913. Koechlin also wrote a number of smaller didactic works, as well as the life of Fauré mentioned above. From Wikipedia. CONDITION: Volume 1: Good+. (Moderate soil on wrappers, darkened and creased spine, some wear at spine ends, a few pages with small creased corners.) Volumes 2, 3 and 4: Very Good. (Moderate soil on wrappers, darkened spine.) All text is complete, clean and intact and the bindings are tight. Check our other auctions and store listings for additional unusual items Check our other auctions and store listings for additional unusual items Listing and template services provided by inkFrog

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