Marcel Stern (composer)

Marcel Stern (4 November 1909 – 2 August 1989) was a French composer and violinist. Life Born in Paris, Stern studied at the Conservatoire de Paris and won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome in 1936 with the cantata Gisèle. After his stay at the Villa Medici in Rome, the Société Nationale performed his Divertissement for Orchestra in Paris in 1939. The Second World War interrupted his musical career, though he completed his symphony La Libération during the Liberation in Cannes. The symphony was premiered on the radio in 1945 and by the Concerts Colonne in 1948 at the Théâtre du Châtelet under the direction of Paul Paray. and the Concerto: pour piano et orchestre (1968). He also composed several transcriptions of works by other composers for violin and orchestra, including George Enescu’s First Romanian Rhapsody. Compositions Classical works (selection) *1935: Cantata Le Château endormi (deuxième Second Grand Prix de Rome) *1936: Cantata Gisèle (Premier Grand Prix de Rome) *1939: Divertissement for small orchestra *1945: Symphony La Libération in E *1964: Bucolique and Iberica, two pieces for flute solo *1968: Concerto for piano and orchestra (YouTube) Cinema Marcel Stern also distingu