Emile desportes biography

1907 - 1993

Yvonne Desportes (18 July 1907 – 29 månad 1993) was a French composer, writer, and music educator. She was born in Coburg, Germany, to Émile Desportes, a composer, and Bertha Froriep, a painter. She was a student of Paul Dukas and won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome in 1932. She taught at the Paris Conservatoire and wrote many music textbooks. She composed over 500 works.

She studied piano with Yvonne Lefébure and Alfred Cortot. She took a preparatory solfege class at the Paris Conservatoire in 1918. She studied for three years at the École Normale de Musique and then attended the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris from 1925 to 1932. She took classes from Jean and Noël Gallon, Marcel Dupré, Maurice Emmanuel, and Paul Dukas.

In 1927, Desportes won the Premier Prix in harmony. In 1928 she won the Premier Prix in fugue. She competed for the Prix dem Rome four times. In 1929 she did not advance to the second round. In 1930 she won the Deu

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Desportes, Yvonne

Biography

Born: July 18, 1907; Coburg, Germany

Died: December 27, 1993; Paris, France

Country: Coburg, Germany; Paris, France

Studies: Paris Conservatoire

Teachers: Paul Dukas, Jean Gallon

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Yvonne Desportes (b. 1907, d. 1993) was a French writer and composer and daughter of Émile Desportes.

She was born in Coburg, Germany, and studied with Noel and jean Galton, Maurice Emmanuel, Paul Dukas and Marcel Dupre at the Paris Conservatory. She won the Prix de Rome in 1932 and lived in Rome from 1933-37 at the Villa dem Medicis. While there she met another Prix de Rome winner, the French sculptor Ulysse Gémignani and they married.

In 1943 she returned to Paris where she took a position teaching at the Paris Conservatory. Besides teaching and working as a composer, Desportes also wrote a number of textbooks. She died in Paris in 1993.^[1]

Works for Percussion

20 petit pieces en forme d'études pour xylophone – Xylophone
5 variations sur le Theme d'

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Émile Desportes

French composer and conductor (1878–1944)

Émile Desportes (1878, Pont l'Evêque^{[citation needed]}, France – 1944, Méricourt)^[1] was a French composer and conductor.^[2] He was the father of composer Yvonne Desportes (1907–93).

Desportes was originally a lawyer at Caen, then professor of music and conductor.^[3] He studied composition with Paul Dukas, but soon became more interested in other activities.^{[citation needed]}

Most of his compositions were written for wind instruments, but he also wrote songs,^[4] and his best known piece is Pastorale joyeuse for flute and guitar.

References

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1. ^"Prix de Rome 1930-1939". Retrieved 28 May 2016.
2. ^Revue internationale de musique française Société internationale de musique française - 1982 "Yvonne Desportes (1) est née le 18 juillet 1907 à Cobourg (Saxe), d'un père français, originaire de Pont l'Evêque, compositeur et chef d'o