Henry Barraud

Biography

Henry Barraud (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi baʁo]; sometimes Henri; 23 April 1900 – 28 December 1997) was a French composer.
He was born in Bordeaux. He was a student of Louis Aubert at the Conservatoire de Paris, but in 1927 failed to graduate, apparently because of his refusal to follow orthodox methods. Along with Pierre-Octave Ferroud and Jean Rivier, he helped to form the society Triton for the wider distribution of contemporary music.
After the Liberation of Paris in 1944, he was named the Director of Paris Radio, and later, in 1948, of what later became ORTF, a position he held until his retirement in 1965.

Opera

Numance (Une Saison en Enfer) – tragédie lyrique in 1 act to a libretto by Salvador de Madariaga after Miguel de Cervantes. It premiered on 22 October 1980 at the Radio France Grand Auditorium in Paris conducted by Serge Baudo

Oratorio

Le Massacre des Saints Innocents – based on a text by the French poet Charles Guy

Instrumental works

Poème for orchestra (1932)
Wind trio (1935)
Piano Concerto (1939)
String Quartet (1939–40)
10 Impromptus (1941) for piano
Sonatine for violin and piano (1941)
Offrande à une ombre, for orchestra (1941–42) à la mémoire de Maurice Jaubert
Symphonie de Numance (Symphony n°1) (1950)
Concertino (1953) for piano, flute, clarinet, horn, bassoon and chamber orchestra
Symphony n°2 for string orchestra (1955–56)
Symphony n°3 (1956–57)
Divertimento for orchestra (1962)
Concerto for Flute and Strings (1963)
Symphonie concertante, for trumpet and orchestra (1965–66)
Trois Etudes, for orchestra (1967)
Variations à treize (1969) for a chamber orchestra of 13 instruments
Concert pour cordes (1971)
Quatuor de saxophones (1975)

Writings

Cinq grands opéras
Pour comprendre la musique d'aujourd'hui
La France et la musique occidentale
Berlioz