# Marcel Samuel-Rousseau > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Marcel_Samuel-Rousseau > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Marcel_Samuel-Rousseau.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Samuel-Rousseau > Source revision: 1339377547 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|French composer, organist and opera director (1882-1955)}} thumb|Samuel-Rousseau (1930) - detail from L. Roosen (photogr) Conservatoire national de musique: Album-photos des classes 1929-30 - Harmonie. Mr S.M. Rousseau{{cite web |last1=Roosen |first1=Louis Photographe |title=Conservatoire national de musique : Album-photos des classes 1929-30. Harmonie. Mr S.M. Rousseau |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8454078n/f1.item# |website=Gallica |access-date=12 December 2024 |language=EN |date=1930}} '''Marcel Auguste Louis Samuel-Rousseau''' ([né](/source/n%C3%A9) '''Rousseau'''; 18 August 1882 – 11 June 1955) was a French composer, organist, and opera director.Griffiths & Langham Smith 1992. ==Life and career== Born in [Paris](/source/Paris), he was the son of [Samuel Rousseau](/source/Samuel_Rousseau_(composer)) and later changed his surname to Samuel-Rousseau to reflect this. He studied composition at the [Paris Conservatoire](/source/Paris_Conservatoire) and was awarded the [Prix de Rome](/source/Prix_de_Rome) in 1905. He married on 4 March 1907 in the 9me arrondissement.{{cite web |title=Archives de Paris (Mariages, 9me, 1903-1912 Puixségur - Sabot) |url=https://archives.paris.fr/arkotheque/visionneuse/visionneuse.php?arko=YTo2OntzOjQ6ImRhdGUiO3M6MTA6IjIwMjQtMTItMTIiO3M6MTA6InR5cGVfZm9uZHMiO3M6MTE6ImFya29fc2VyaWVsIjtzOjQ6InJlZjEiO2k6NztzOjQ6InJlZjIiO2k6MTg4MDc7czoxNjoidmlzaW9ubmV1c2VfaHRtbCI7YjoxO3M6MjE6InZpc2lvbm5ldXNlX2h0bWxfbW9kZSI7czo0OiJwcm9kIjt9#uielem_move=-1125%2C-479&uielem_islocked=0&uielem_zoom=179&uielem_brightness=0&uielem_contrast=0&uielem_isinverted=0&uielem_rotate=F |website=archives.paris.fr |access-date=12 December 2024 |page=17}} He was the organist at [Saint-Séverin](/source/Saint-S%C3%A9verin_(Paris)) from 1919 to 1922 and president of the [Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique](/source/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_des_auteurs%2C_compositeurs_et_%C3%A9diteurs_de_musique) (SACEM) from 1935 to 1953. For many years he was a professor of harmony at the Paris Conservatoire and artistic director of the Pathé opera company. He was the father of [Prix de Rome](/source/Prix_de_Rome) laureate [Éveline Plicque-Andréani](/source/%C3%89veline_Plicque-Andr%C3%A9ani).{{cite web |title=Prix de Rome 1950-1959 |url=http://www.musimem.com/prix-rome-1950-1959.htm |website=www.musimem.com |access-date=11 December 2024 |quote=Eveline... Plicque-Andréani, est née le 25 janvier 1929... Fille naturelle de Marcel Samuel-Rousseau et d’Irène Plicque-Boudon...}} From 1941 to 1944 he was director of the [Paris Opéra](/source/Paris_Op%C3%A9ra). He died in [Paris](/source/Paris) in 1955, aged 72. ==Works== As a composer, Samuel-Rousseau was highly influenced by the works of [Franck](/source/C%C3%A9sar_Franck) and [Fauré](/source/Gabriel_Faur%C3%A9). He tended to be more conservative in style than many of his contemporaries but he was a master at [chromatic harmony](/source/chromatic_harmony) and had a strong sense for the dramatic. His compositions include [operas](/source/operas), [ballets](/source/ballets), [orchestral](/source/orchestral) and piano music and [songs](/source/songs). His best works are his operas, which tend towards the exotic and are ambitious in scale. His first opera, ''Le Roi Arthur'', was based on the legend of [King Arthur](/source/King_Arthur) and given a concert performance at the Conservatoire on 8 November 1903. His second, ''Tarass Boulba'', was based on the legend of a Cossack warrior and performed at the [Théâtre du Vaudeville](/source/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_du_Vaudeville), beginning on 22 November 1919. ''Le Hulla'', a four-act ''conte-lyrique-orental'' with words by [André Rivoire](/source/Andr%C3%A9_Rivoire), was premiered on 9 March 1923 by the [Opéra-Comique](/source/Op%C3%A9ra-Comique) at the [Salle Favart](/source/Salle_Favart) in a production by [Albert Carré](/source/Albert_Carr%C3%A9).Wild & Charlton 2005, p. 278. The performances were conducted by [Albert Wolff](/source/Albert_Wolff_(conductor)); [Yvonne Brothier](/source/Yvonne_Brothier) sang Dilara, and [Charles Friant](/source/Charles_Friant), Narsès. The opera included a Persian dance choreographed by [Louise Stichel](/source/Louise_Stichel) and danced by Mona Païva. It was revived in 1926 and performed a total of 44 times by the company.Wolff 1953, p. 92. ''Le bon roi Dagobert'', a four-act ''comédie musicale'' with words by André Rivoire, based on his 1908 play with the same title, was presented by the Opéra-Comique at the Salle Favart beginning on 5 December 1927.Wild & Charlton 2005, p. 167. [Emma Luart](/source/Emma_Luart) sang La Reine, [Charles Friant](/source/Charles_Friant) was Dagobert, and [Louis Fourestier](/source/Louis_Fourestier) conducted. The opera was revived in a new production by {{Ill|Max de Rieux|fr}} in 1938, 1939, and 1943, with [Vina Bovy](/source/Vina_Bovy) as the Queen and [Louis Arnoult](/source/Louis_Arnoult) as Dagobert, by which time it had been performed a total of 72 times by the company.Wolff 1953, p. 32. His one-act opera ''Kerkeb'', with a libretto by [Michel Carré](/source/Michel_Carr%C3%A9) (based on a novel by [Elissa Rhaïs](/source/Elissa_Rha%C3%AFs)), was premiered on 6 April 1951 by the [Opéra](/source/Paris_Opera) at the [Palais Garnier](/source/Palais_Garnier).Wolff 1962, p. 131. The title role, a [Berber](/source/Berbers) dancer in a harem, was sung by [Géori Boué](/source/G%C3%A9ori_Bou%C3%A9), and [Roger Bourdin](/source/Roger_Bourdin) sang Sid-Haffid. The performances were conducted by Louis Fourestier. The opera was revived in 1956 with [Suzanne Sarroca](/source/Suzanne_Sarroca) in the title role. The opera had been performed a total of 26 times by the company by its last performance on 12 July 1958. ==Notes== {{reflist}} ==Bibliography== * Griffiths, Paul; Richard Langham Smith (1992). "Samuel-Rousseau [Rousseau], Marcel [Louis Auguste]", vol. 4, p. 161, in ''[The New Grove Dictionary of Opera](/source/The_New_Grove_Dictionary_of_Opera)'', edited by Stanley Sadie, {{ISBN|0-333-73432-7}} and {{ISBN|1-56159-228-5}}. [https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.24483 Online version] updated 26 October 2011. * Wild, Nicole; Charlton, David (2005). ''Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique Paris: répertoire 1762-1972''. Sprimont, Belgium: Editions Mardaga. {{ISBN|9782870098981}}. * Wolff, Stéphane (1953). ''Un demi-siècle d'Opéra-Comique (1900-1950).'' Paris: André Bonne. {{OCLC|44733987|2174128|78755097}} * Wolff, Stéphane (1962). ''L'Opéra au Palais Garnier (1875–1962)''. Paris: Deposé au journal L'Entr'acte. {{OCLC|7068320|460748195}}. Paris: Slatkine (1983 reprint) {{ISBN|9782050002142}}. ==External links== * {{IMSLP|id=Samuel-Rousseau, Marcel}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Samuel-Rousseau, Marcel}} Category:1882 births Category:1955 deaths Category:20th-century French classical composers Category:20th-century French male composers Category:Conservatoire de Paris alumni Category:French opera composers Category:French opera directors Category:French male opera composers Category:Composers from Paris Category:Members of the Académie des beaux-arts Category:Prix de Rome for composition {{france-composer-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Marcel Samuel-Rousseau](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Samuel-Rousseau) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Samuel-Rousseau?action=history)). 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