Claude Arrieu

Claude Arrieu (30 November 1903 – 7 March 1990) was a prolific French composer. Claude Arrieu was the pseudonym used by Ann Marie Simon.

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Claude Arrieu wrote extensively for the clarinet. Click Here or scroll down to learn more about each work, find purchase or rental links, and listen to recordings.

Biography
Born in Paris, Claude Arrieu trained as a classical musician from an early age. Dreaming of a career as a virtuoso, she entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1924. She became a piano student of Marguerite Long and took classes from Georges Caussade, Noël Gallon, Jean Roger-Ducasse and Paul Dukas. In 1932, she received first prize for composition.

In 1935, she joined the French Radio Broadcasting Program Service (« Service des programmes de la Radiodiffusion française »), where she was employed to 1947. She participated in the development of a wide range of programming, including Pierre Schaeffer’s experimental radio series, La Coquille à planètes (1943–1944). In 1949, she won the Prix Italia of the RAI for her score Frédéric Général.

Throughout her long career composed in a variety of styles and genres, including chamber music, concertos, opera, as well as music for theatre and film. Among her numerous compositions for voice are Chansons bas for voice and piano based on poems by Mallarmé (1937); Candide, radio music on texts by Jean Tardieu based on Voltaire; and À la Libération, cantata of seven poems on love in war, on poems by Paul Éluard.

Her first opéra bouffe, Cadet Roussel with a libretto by André de la Tourasse after Jean Limozin, was presented at the Opéra de Marseille on 2 October 1953. In 1960, La Princesse de Babylone, an opéra bouffe after the work of Voltaire adapted by Pierre Dominica, was praised for its lyrical originality and spectacle.

Noteworthy film scores include: Les Gueux au paradis (1946), Crèvecoeur (1955), Niok l’éléphant (1957), Marchands de rien (1958), Le Tombeur (1958), and Julie Charles (for television, 1974).

A complete biography, from which the above is excerpted, can be found on Wikipedia.org. Additional research sources can be found at the bottom of the page.

Capriccio | 1970
Clarinet and piano
Publisher: Amphion
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