Théodore Dubois

[FBerwald]

Does anyone have a catalog of Théodore Dubois's music? Did he write any symphonies? Or concertos for that matter... All I have is  his Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor on the Musicales Actes .

[eschiss1]

in response to the more limited question, there is also a violin concerto, composed around 1897, premiered and published in 1898, and recently recorded.

[Josh]

Yes, he did write a symphony in the early 1900s.

Here's a video where they're talking about it, speaking Foreignese, but you can hear very brief snatches of the work:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kspQw-rvvKo

[eschiss1]

Wikipedia claims three symphonies (including the Symphonie française of 1908). Not sure if they're all for full orchestra though (it seems possible they could be including symphonies for organ in that tally...- I do not know.)

(Re the 1908 symphony: from Fulcher's The Composer As Intellectual: Music and Ideology in France, 1914-1940 (OUP, 2005): here, note 165: "There was a long tradition of using such musical quotations [as of the Marseillaise, which Debussy may not have actually used, or not clearly- see the page in question] to testify to patriotism, an example being Theodor Dubois' Symphonie française, of 1908.")

[eschiss1]

Another book mentions that Dubois' 2nd symphony was premiered by the Société symphonique in Grande-Bretagne around 1914? with Eugene Ysaÿe conducting. (The book is about Ysaÿe, unsurprisingly: Michel Stockhem (Editions Mardaga, 1990), Eugène Ysaÿe et la musique de chambre, p.45. Tanks, Google Books. )

[FBerwald]

There seems to be a Mirare CD featuring some Cello and Piano Concertant works.

http://mirare.fr/DisquesMirare/JF_Heisser.html

Fantaisie-Stück for Cello and Orchestra
Suite concertante for Cello, Piano and Orchestra
Concerto capriccioso for Piano and Orchestra [Piano Concerto No. 1]
In memoriam mortuorum
Andante cantabile for Cello and Orchestra.

Any other concertants? [other than the D minor Violin concerto?] And does anyone have any idea what keys these pices are in?

[eschiss1]

I seem to recall the Mirare CD being mentioned here awhile back but not the keys.  It does have an allmusic page where sound samples can be heard- hopefully of first subjects of fast sections that therefore would represent the work's main key; this is not always the easiest thing even with the whole score and performance to-hand, let alone just a minute's sample from somewhere within the music...

[Alan Howe]

Here's the Wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9odore_Dubois

[edurban]

An unofficial recording of his oratorio Paradise Lost, presumably taken from a French Radio broadcast of last year's Montpellier Festival, is available here (I have not heard it):

http://premiereopera.net/le-paradis-perdu-by-t-dubois-montpellier-2011/

David