All the favourites are here plus lots of lesser-known masterpieces. In these collections Colin Mawby, a foremost exponent of this great tradition, has chosen compositions that are both singer and listener friendly. Choirs worldwide are rediscovering the beauties of Latin music.
SATB with Organ, A performing edition by Colin Mawby.
The story revolves around a widowed mother who plots to kills her daughter, Xavière, with the help of her fiancé's father to gain the daughter's inheritance. His other large-scale opera, Xavière, has a wildly dramatic tale set in the rural Auvergne. His fascination with Near-Eastern subjects lead to the composition to his first staged work, La guzla de l'émir, and his first four-act opera, Aben-Hamet, which broke no new ground. Gabriel Fauré took over from Dubois as director.Īlthough he wrote many religious works, Dubois had considerable hopes for a successful career on the operatic stage. He was forced to resign after his refusal to award the Prix de Rome to Maurice Ravel created a substantial public outcry, which was increased by an open letter from the novelist and musicologist Romain Rolland. From 1871 he taught at the Paris Conservatoire, with the eminent composers Paul Dukas and Florent Schmitt among his pupils.ĭubois was director of the Conservatoire from 1896 (succeeding Thomas upon the latter's death) to 1905. In 1877, Dubois returned to the Church of the Madeleine, succeeding Camille Saint-Saëns as organist there. In 1868, he became choirmaster at the Church of the Madeleine, and in 1871 took over from César Franck as choirmaster at the Basilica of Sainte-Clotilde. He studied first under Louis Fanart (the choirmaster at Reims cathedral) and later at the Paris Conservatoire under Ambroise Thomas. Théodore Dubois was born in Rosnay in Marne. François-Clément Théodore Dubois (24 August 1837 ? 11 June 1924) was a French composer, organist and music teacher.
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