MARIOTTE, Antoine 1875-1944

[Op. 14]. Impressions urbaine pour piano. With autograph inscription from the composer to pianist Paul Loyonnet

Paris: Enoch & Cie [PN 7934-7938], 1921.

Folio. Original publisher's brown wrappers with titling within border ruled in red to upper. 1f. (recto illustrated title, verso composer's notes), 1-47 pp., 1f. (publisher's advertisement).

Inscribed by the composer to French-born Canadian pianist, teacher, and writer on music Paul Loyonnet (1889-1988) to upper inner corner of first page of music and printed dedication to French pianist Édouard Risler (1873-1929) to head of title and first page of music.

Contains:
1. Usines
II. Faubourgs
III. Guinguettes
IV. Décombres
V. Gares

Wrappers quite browned and chipped; publisher's handstamp and handstamp monogram "an" to upper. Browned.

First Edition.

Premiered by Risler in 1921.

Mariotte, a conductor, composer and administrator, "abandoned a naval career to study composition under d'lndy at the Schola Cantorum and held conducting posts as well as teaching the piano in the conservatories at Lyons and Orléans. From 1936 to 1939 he was director of the Opéra-Comique ... Although he was primarily a vocal composer, his Impressions urbaines, adorned with a cover depicting modern-day town scenes, are an unusual example of instrumental realism." Richard Langham Smith in Grove Music Online.

Item #33791

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