{{Short description|French composer and music critic}} '''Gaston Carraud''' (20 July 1864 – 15 June 1920) was a French composer and music critic.
==Life== Born at Le Mée-sur-Seine,<ref>[http://www.archinoe.fr/cg77v2/index.php/docnumViewer/calculHierarchieDocNum/138947/870:18305:25864:138947/900/1600 Archives of Seine-et-Marne, commune du Mée-sur-Seine, birth certificate issue 27, année 1864 (page 44/237)].</ref> Carraud was the son of Ivan Carraud (1826–1881), general inspector of water and forests, general adviser of the Cher, and of Zoé de Ridder (1835–1903), of Belgian origin, and the grandson of Zulma Carraud, ''née'' Tourangin, writer and friend of Honoré de Balzac.
Carraud began his musical training at the "École Monge", receiving instruction from Albéric Magnard, Charles Koechlin, Jacques Pillois, André Caplet and Gabriel Bender.<ref>[http://data.bnf.fr/16315511/gabriel_bender/ Gabriel Bender] at BnF.</ref> He then studied musical composition at the Conservatoire de Paris with Jules Massenet and obtained in 1890 the Premier Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata ''Cléopâtre'' after a text by Fernand Beissier.
He later composed the symphonic poems ''La Chevauchée de la chimère'',<ref>[http://data.bnf.fr/15120652/gaston_carraud_la_chevauchee_de_la_chimere/ ''La Chevauchée de la chimère''] on BNF</ref> ''Les Nuits'' after the poems by Alfred de Musset and the overture ''Buona Pasqua''. From 1905, he worked as a music critic for the newspaper ''La Liberté''. In 1921, his book ''La Vie, l'œuvre et la mort d'Albéric Magnard (1865-1914)'' was published in Paris.<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7862906 ''La vie, l'œuvre et la mort d'Albéric Magnard (1865-1914)'' on WorldCat]</ref>
Carraud died in his home in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.<ref>[http://archives.paris.fr/arkotheque/visionneuse/visionneuse.php?arko=YTo2OntzOjQ6ImRhdGUiO3M6MTA6IjIwMTctMDQtMDciO3M6MTA6InR5cGVfZm9uZHMiO3M6MTE6ImFya29fc2VyaWVsIjtzOjQ6InJlZjEiO2k6NDtzOjQ6InJlZjIiO2k6MjYwMDg2O3M6MTY6InZpc2lvbm5ldXNlX2h0bWwiO2I6MTtzOjIxOiJ2aXNpb25uZXVzZV9odG1sX21vZGUiO3M6NDoicHJvZCI7fQ==#uielem_move=-62%2C-726&uielem_rotate=F&uielem_islocked=0&uielem_zoom=128 Archives de Paris 8e, death certificate issue 1495, year 1920 (page 7/31)].</ref>
He rests in the family plot at Nohant-en-Graçay cemetery (Cher), next to Zulma Carraud.<ref>Bertrand Beyern, ''Guide des tombes d'hommes célèbres'' (Paris: Le Cherche-Midi, 2011), p. 48.</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.musimem.com/prix-rome-1890-1899.htm Gaston Carraud] (Prix de Rome 1890–1899) {{Authority control}}
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