Tony Louis Alexandre Aubin (8 December 1907 – 21 September 1981) was a French composer.

Career

Aubin was born in Paris. From 1925 to 1930, he studied at the

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under

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(music theory),

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(counterpoint), Philippe Gaubert (orchestration and composition), and

Paul Dukas Paul Abraham Dukas ( or ; 1 October 1865 – 17 May 1935) was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher. A studious man of retiring personality, he was intensely self-critical, having abandoned and destroyed many of his compositions. His b ...

(composition). He was awarded the

Prix de Rome The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them t ...

for the cantata ''Actaeon'' in 1930. He was artistic director at

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from 1937 to 1944, and professor at the Paris Conservatory from 1944 to 1977. He also conducted works for French radio between 1945 and 1960. His works, heavily indebted to the

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and Dukas, include many film scores. His pupils included Olivier Alain,

Garbis Aprikian Garbis Aprikian (born 1926) is a musician from the Armenian Diaspora. He has composed many vocal and instrumental works in which Western musical technique (counterpoint, fugue...) marries Armenian melodies. As a performer, Garbis Aprikian has direct ...

, Raynald Arseneault, Jocelyne Binet, Jacques Castérède,

Pierre Cochereau Pierre Eugène Charles Cochereau (9 July 1924 – 6 March 1984) was a French organist, improviser, composer, and pedagogue. Cochereau was titular organist of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris from 1955 to his death in 1984 and was responsi ...

, Marius Constant,

Ginette Keller Ginette Keller (16 May 1925 - 27 June 2010) was a French composer. Biography Keller was born in Asnières-sur-Seine. She studied at the ''Conservatoire de Paris'' with Nadia Boulanger, Tony Aubin and Olivier Messiaen. In 1951 she won the Second ...

, Talivaldis Kenins, Yüksel Koptagel, Ron Nelson,

Makoto Shinohara is a Japanese composer. Biography Born in Osaka, Japan, Shinohara studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts from 1952 to 1954, studying composition with Tomojirō Ikenouchi, piano with , and conducting with Akeo Watanabe and Kurt Wöss. Fro ...

, and Williametta Spencer.

Works

*''Piano Sonata'', 1930 *''Quatuor à cordes'', 1930–1933 *''Prélude, Récitatif et Finale'' for piano, 1930–1933 *''Six Poèmes de Verlaine'', 1932–1933 *''Cressida'', Melodrama, 1934 *''1er Sinfonie, "Romantique"'', 1935–1937 *''Le Sommeil d'Iskender'', 1936 *''Cantilène variée'' for cello and piano, 1937 *''La Chasse infernale (Le chevalier Pécopin)'', Scherzo Symphonique, 1941–1942 *''Jeanne d'Arc à Orléans'', Oratorio, 1942 *''Suite danoise'', 1942–1945 *''Athalie'', 1943 *''Symphony No. 2'', 1944 *''François Villon'', 1945 *''Fourberies'', Ballet, 1950–1952 *''Variations'' on a theme of

Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal wor ...

, Ballet, 1953 *''Grand pas'' on a theme of

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, Ballet, 1953 *''Suite éolienne'' for flute, clarinet, and orchestra, 1956 *''Périls'', Lyrical drama, 1956–1958 *''La Source'', 1960 *''Hymne à d'espérance'', 1961 *''Concertinetto'' for violin and piano, 1964 *''Concertinetto del amicizia'' for flute and piano, 1965 *''Concertino della Brughiera'' for bassoon and piano, 1966–1975 *''Divertimento del incertezza'' for clarinet and piano or orchestra, 1967/ 1973 *''La Jeunesse de Goya'', opera, 1968–1970 *''Concertino delle scoiattolo'' for oboe, piano and strings, 1970 *''Au fil de l'eau'', 1970 *''Toccatrotta'', 1972 *''Hidalgoyas'' for guitar, 1975 *''Passacaglia dell'addio'' for viola and piano, 1977

Filmography

* 1941 : '' The Pavilion Burns'' (

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) * 1942 : '' À l'assaut des Aiguilles du Diable'' (Marcel Ichac) * 1943 : '' Les Ailes blanches'' * 1943 : ''

Le Corbeau ''Le Corbeau'' () is a 1943 French film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot and starring Pierre Fresnay, Micheline Francey and Pierre Larquey. The film is about a French town where a number of citizens receive anonymous letters containing libelou ...

'' (

Henri-Georges Clouzot Henri-Georges Clouzot (; 20 November 1907 – 12 January 1977) was a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best remembered for his work in the thriller film genre, having directed '' The Wages of Fear'' and '' Les Diaboliques' ...

) * 1943 : '' Sondeurs d'abîmes'' (Marcel Ichac) * 1943 : '' Ceux du rivage'' * 1944 : '' La Collection Ménard'' * '' The Pretty Miller Girl'' (1949) * 1952 : '' Groenland, 20 000 lieues sur les glaces'' (

Marcel Ichac Marcel Ichac (22 October 1906 - 9 April 1994) was a French alpinist, explorer, photographer and film director. Born in Rueil, France, Ichac was one of the first people to introduce electronic music in cinema with Ondes Martenot for ''Karakoram' ...

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) * 1952 : ''

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'' (Marcel Ichac) * 1966 : ''

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References

Sources

Don Randel Don Michael Randel (born December 9, 1940) is an American musicologist, specializing in the music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in Spain and France. He is currently the Chair of the Board of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a trustee ...

. ''The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music''. Harvard, 1996, . {{DEFAULTSORT:Aubin, Tony 1907 births 1981 deaths 20th-century classical composers 20th-century French conductors (music) 20th-century French composers 20th-century French male musicians Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Paris Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery Conservatoire de Paris alumni French classical composers French male classical composers French male conductors (music) French film score composers French male film score composers Musicians from Paris Prix de Rome for composition