Maurice Marshal (violoncellist)

See also: Maurice Marshal

Maurice Maréchal is a Violoncelliste French born with Dijon in 1892 and died with Paris on April 19th 1964.

After having studied with the academy of its birthplace, it enters in 1905 to the Conservatoire of Paris where it gains its first price of Violoncelle in 1911. Three years later, France enters in war and the young Marshal, then 22 years old is mobilized. He tells his daily newspaper of August 1914 in February 1919 in his intimate diaries.

Two comrades carpenters cut to him a rudimentary violoncello in the wood of a case with ammunition - “the Hairy one” (preserved at the museum of the instruments of the Academy of Paris) - thanks to which it plays for the religious offices and the officers. It makes knowledge on the face of other musicians: Gustave Cloëz, the violonist Lucien Durosoir, the pianist Henri Magne, the type-setter Andre Caplet, Henri Lemoine with which it forms a small unit which occurs in front of the Staff.

After the war, it integrates into 1919 the Concerts Lamoureux for one year. One finds it in 1926 in the Orchestra of New York. It then starts a career of soloist who carries out it on all the continents.

In 1942, Maurice Maréchal is named professor with the Academy of Paris, posts that it leaves one year before his death which occurs in 1964, whereas Maréchal is 72 years old.

He in particular created the Sonate for violin and violoncello of Ravel, the Epiphany of Caplet, the concertos of Honegger and Milhaud, etc

Its nine intimate diaries, gathered with letters of Lucien Durosoir, are appeared in 2005 in a work entitled Two musicians in the Great War (editions Tallandier, Paris, 2005).

Its pupil Alain Lambert devoted a book, Maurice Maréchal to him, the voice of the violoncello (Editions Butterfly, Geneva, 2003).

Certain written letters by Maurice Maréchal during the Great War are reported in the book Hairy Paroles

External bonds

Site of association Musicians between War and Peace (biographies and photographs of Marshal, Caplet, Durosoir)
Report of reading of “Two musicians in the Great War” on the site musicologie.org
of Coulibœuf, Cloëz, Durosoir, Magne, and Marshal with “Hairy” the
Maurice Marshal, portraits and documents, on the site of BdF, Gallica

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