Mirouze, Marcel
Mirouze, Marcel
Mirouze, Marcel, French composer and conductor; b. Toulouse, Sept. 24, 1906; d. in an automobile accident in Aude, Aug. 1, 1957. He studied with Büsser at the Paris Cons. He conducted the Paris Radio Orch. (1935–40) and in Monte Carlo (1940–43). He wrote an opera, Geneviève de Paris, for the 2,000th anniversary of the founding of the city of Paris; it was produced first as a radio play with music in 1952, and then on stage in Toulouse in the same year. He also composed 2 ballets, Paul et Virginie (1942) and Les Bains de mer (1946), 2 symphonic tableaux, Afrique (1936) and Asie (1938), Piano Concerto (1948), film music, piano pieces, and songs.
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