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Angèle Ravizé

1887 – 1980

French composer and pedagogue

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Lived 1887 – 1980 (aged 92–93). Angèle Ravizé was a French composer and pedagogue.

Angèle Ravizé (1887 - 1980) was a French ethnomusicologist, composer and educator who preserved French folk music and specialized in music education for young children.

Biography A native of southwest France, Ravizé attended the Paris Conservatory, where she studied with Andre Gedalge and won two prizes: a first prize for fugue and the Lepaulle prize for young teachers. Ravizé encouraged public schools to include instruction on recorders. In the late 1940s, she began producing children’s musical programs on the radio, often using preschool choruses accompanied by children’s orchestras. She collaborated with Marie-Rose Clouzot on several pedagogical publications.

Ravizé arranged French folk music for choral groups using regional dialects from Anjou, Brittany, Landes, Sarlat, and also from Canada. Alexandre Arnoux, Claude Barangeon, Charles Boulen, Robert Browning, Charles Cros, Georges Gaudion, Philadelphe de Gerde (pseudonym for Madame Claude Duclos Requier), Alphonse-Marius Gossez, Carlos de Lazerme, Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, Clement Marot, Achille Millien, Jean Moréas (pseudonym for Ioannes Papadiamantopoulos), Jules Mousseron, Marie Vancalys (pseudonym for Marcelle Bertin), and Francis Yard (also known as Athanase François Yard). Her publications include:

Books

32 Leçons de Solfège sans Altérations

“Chanson de Patre”

“Chanson du Labour”

“Histoire d’un Potiron”

“L’Imprudent Crapaud”

“La Dispute”

“La Marmite”

“Le Pic du Mineur”

“Legende des Croisades”

“Les Importuns”

Mere Michel (for three women’s voices)

Nocturne (for three women’s voices)

Petites Histoires Mises en Musique

Pluies d’Ete (for three women’s voices)

“Rac”

“Trois Petits Oiseaux”

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1887
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Died
1980
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Who was Angèle Ravizé?

French composer and pedagogue (1887-1980)

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Angèle Ravizé was born in 1887.

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Angèle Ravizé died in 1980.

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Angèle Ravizé was a composer and pedagogue.

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Angèle Ravizé was French.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Angèle Ravizé

· Wikidata: Q111191793

· DBpedia: Angèle Ravizé

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