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Maurice Thiriet

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Maurice Thiriet (French: [tiʁjɛ]; 2 May 1906 – 28 September 1972) was a French composer of classical and film music.

Biography

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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

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Stage and dramatic

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  • 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

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  • Le Livre pour Jean (1929)
  • Rhapsody on Inca Themes (1935)
  • Poem, for strings (1936)
  • La Nuit Fantasque (1941)
  • Les visiteurs du soir (1947)

Concertante

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  • Introduction, Chanson et Ronde, harp and orchestra (1936)
  • Flute Concerto, flute and string orchestra (1959)

Selected filmography

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References

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  1. ^ "Maurice Thiriet". Olympedia. Retrieved 21 August 2020.

Sources

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^ Mark Brill "Maurice Thiriet" in The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

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