Georges Arnoux
Georges Arnoux was a French composer with Breton nationalist leanings.Life and music
Born in Paris, Arnoux was the descendant of a family originally from Switzerland. He studied harmony, counterpoint and composition with Vincent d'Indy at the Schola Cantorum de Paris.
He was very interested in Brittany and its traditional music and learned the Breton language. In the 1920s, he was involved with the Breton cultural movements and joined the Breton artistic movement Seiz Breur in 1939. From 1934 he argued for a conservatory of Breton music that never came to fruition.
He died in Vevey, Switzerland.Selected works
Compositions
Large-scale works
- Koroll ar vuhez hag ar maro, ballet work for orchestra
- Gethsemanie, "sacred poem" for soloists and orchestra
- Suite pittoresque et brève, for string orchestra
Piano music
- Valse des Korrigans
- Voici la saison joyeuse du délicieux printemps
- Pages bretonnes
- Tarik lan la
Songs
- Noel des prisonniers
- 20 Chansons bretonnes
- Kanaouennou goueliou ar Bleun-Brug
- Petites histoires bretonnes en huit chansons
- Chansons pour Martine
- Adieu Bretagne
Writings
- Conditions du répertoire musical breton
- "L'Harmonisation des chants populaires", in: La Bretagne à Paris, 11 April 1936
- Mathématique de la mise en scène
- Science et musique
- Musique platonicienne
- La Vache enchantée
- Demain sera détruit
