# Henri Collet

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**Henri Collet** (kɔlɛ; 5 November 1885 – 23 November 1951) was a French [composer](/source/Composer) and [music critic](/source/Music_criticism) who lived in Paris.

## Biography

Born in [Paris](/source/Paris), Collet first studied at the Conservatory of Music at [Bordeaux](/source/Bordeaux) before going to [Madrid](/source/Madrid) to study Spanish literature with [Ramón Menéndez Pidal](/source/Ram%C3%B3n_Men%C3%A9ndez_Pidal) and composition with [Felipe Pedrell](/source/Felipe_Pedrell) and Federico Olmeda. Later, teachers in Paris included [Déodat de Séverac](/source/D%C3%A9odat_de_S%C3%A9verac), [Gabriel Fauré](/source/Gabriel_Faur%C3%A9) and [Manuel de Falla](/source/Manuel_de_Falla).[1] In 1907, he gave his first public recitals as a pianist in [Burgos](/source/Burgos) and Madrid. In 1913, he earned his doctorate at the university of Bordeaux with a study about musical mysticism in sixteenth-century Spain.

Besides composing and writing, Collet taught at the Institut d'études hispaniques and later at the [Collège Chaptal](/source/Coll%C3%A8ge_Chaptal). He received a number of awards including a silver medal from the *Faculté de lettres* of the university of Bordeaux (1908), the Prix Pierre Aubry (1913), and the composition prize of the city of Paris for his stage work *La Chèvre d'or* (1936).

## Works

His music is marked by his admiration for Spanish culture – a result of his studies and travels over many years on Spain. In France, he contributed to the reputation of Spanish composers including [Albéniz](/source/Isaac_Alb%C3%A9niz), [Granados](/source/Enrique_Granados), [Mompou](/source/Federico_Mompou), [Nin](/source/Joaqu%C3%ADn_Nin) and [Turina](/source/Joaqu%C3%ADn_Turina). Today his music is seldom performed.

Collet is best remembered for his two 1920 articles in *Comoedia*[2] in which he coined the term [Les Six](/source/Les_Six) to designate a group of young composers at the [Conservatoire de Paris](/source/Conservatoire_de_Paris).

## Selected works

**Stage**

- *Le Cabaret espagnol*, ballet (1918)
- *Godefroy*, "bouffonnerie musicale" in 1 act, Op. 81
- *Clavelitos* (Danses gitanes), ballet, Op. 87 (1928)
- *Cervantes à Alger*, opera (1930)
- *Los toreros*, ballet-pantomime in 1 act, 7 scenes (1932)
- *La Chèvre d'or*, lyrical comedy (opera) (1936)
- *El alcalde de Zalamea*, opera (1946)

**Orchestral/Solo with Orchestra**

- *Burgos*, "poème" for violin and orchestra, Op. 30 (1912)
- *Rapsodie Castillane* for viola and orchestra (1923)
- *Symphonie de l'Alhambra* (1947)
- *Concerto flamenco No. 1* for piano and orchestra (1946)
- *Concerto flamenco No. 2* for violin and orchestra (1947)

**Chamber**

- *Musique espagnole* for violin and piano
- *Primavera*, berceuse for violin and piano (1921)
- *Sonate Castillane* for violin and piano (1921)
- *Trio Castillan* for violin, cello and piano (1925)
- *Castellanas*, "suite espaganole" for string quartet and piano, Op. 32
- *Briviesca*, poem for guitar, Op. 67

**Piano**

- *El escorial*, Poème symphonique, Op. 22
- *Chants de Castille*, Series I (1920)
- *Chants de Castille*, Series II, Op. 42 (1922)
- *Danzas castellanas*, Op.75 (1925)
- *Alma española*, Dance Music from Spain, Opp. 111–185

**Vocal**

- *Cinq poèmes de Francis Jammes*, Opp. 17–21 (1920)
- *Quatre paysages* for voice and piano, Opp. 56–59
- *Siete canciones populares de Burgos*, Op. 80

## See also

- [Les Six](/source/Les_Six)

## Bibliography

- Chr. Le Bordays: "Henri Collet (1883–1951): Le Compositeur", in: *Revue internationale de musique française*, 26 June 1988, p. 99–110.
- Jacinthe Harbec, Nicole Paiement: *Catalogue des oeuvres de Henri Collet* (Montréal: Éditions St-Martin, 1998). ISBN 2-89035-312-5.

## References

1. François-Gildas Tual, "Collet, Henri", in: *Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG)*, biographical part, vol. 4 (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2000), cc. 1387–1389.

1. "La Musique chez soi (XII): Un livre de Rimsky et un livre de Cocteau – Les Cinq russes, les Six français et Erik Satie", *Comoedia*, 16 January 1920, p. 2; "La Musique chez soi (XIII): Les 'Six' français: Darius Milhaud, Louis Durey, Georges Auric, Arthur Honegger, Francis Poulenc et Germaine Tailleferre", *Comoedia*, 23 January 1920, p. 2.

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