Joseph Edouard Barat
Tue, Oct 12 2010, 2:08PM
Hi Everyone
I am trying to help a friend with some programme notes and we have come up against a bit of a brick wall in terms of research.
We are trying to find out information about Josepg Edouard Barat (J. Ed. Barat) 1882-1963, and his piece for Cor Anglais, Nostalgie (published in the UK by Leduc).
I have tried the grove dictionary, naxos music library, and have even contacted the publisher (I am still waiting to hear back) but I was hoping someone could help.
Many Thanks in advance
Amy
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Amy
I looked at Grove and Oxford Online and drew a blank. The only thing I came across (via a Google search) was http://www.dolmetsch.com/cdefsb.htm which gives a short para:
Joseph Edouard Barat (1882 – 1963) studied conducting at the Paris Conservatoire with Paul Vidal and Emile Pessard. Starting in 1933, Barat was a bandmaster with the French Army. Because of this, most of his compositions are written for solo wind instruments with piano or orchestral accompaniment.
His “Andante et Scherzo” for trumpet is a two movement work, the first movement is in a slow common time that’s use of non traditional harmonic progressions and whole tone scales avoids introducing a clear tonic until it cadences in C major. The second movement is in a compound meter, also in C, with a small recapitulation of the first movement in the coda.