Omer Letorey
Omer Letorey (4 May 1873 – 21 March 1938) was a French composer. Born in Chalon-sur-Saône, from 1887 Letorey attended the music school of Louis Niedermeyer. From 1891 he studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Émile Pessard; at the same time he became organist at the Ste-Elisabeth church. In 1895 he won the first Premier Grand Prix de Rome with the lyrical scene Clarisse Harlowe. After his studies Letorey was musical director at the Comédie-Française until 1922. Furthermore, he was from 1900 successor of Edmond Missa, organist at the Église Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin, from 1903 cantor and organist at the St-Pierre-de-Chaillot church and from 1923 to 1925 cantor at the St-Honoré-d'Eylau church. In addition to church music, Letorey composed several drama music and operas. His incidental music for Macbeth, which was premiered in 1914 at the Comédie Française, and the opera Le Sicilien (after Molière), which was premiered in 1930 at the Opéra-Comique with the mezzo-soprano Germaine Cernay, had great success. Letorey died in Issy-les-Moulineaux in 1938. |
Birth and Death Data: Born May 4, 1873 (Chalon-sur-Saône), Died March 21, 1938 (Issy-les-Moulineaux)
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1927
Roles Represented in DAHR: composer
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Recordings
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Columbia (U.K.) | WL450 | 10-in. | 5/1/1927 | Scherzo | Quintette des Solistes de la Musique de la Garde | Instrumental quintet | composer |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Letorey, Omer," accessed November 25, 2024, https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/359840.
Letorey, Omer. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 25, 2024, from https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/359840.
"Letorey, Omer." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 25 November 2024.
DAHR Persistent Identifier
Linked Open Data Sources
LCNAR: Letorey, Omer, 1873-1938 - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87842348
Wikidata: Omer Letorey - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1603298
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/3995110
MusicBrainz: Omer Letorey - https://musicbrainz.org/artist/34f013b9-b403-4e02-b532-9ce0c083c7ba
ISNI: 0000 0001 1587 3507 - http://www.isni.org/isni/0000000115873507
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