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Groves Dictionary Of Music And Musicians,vol.5 L-m, 1900
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1Swedish composer. He studied pianoforte and violin during his schooldays at Åkarp, and after taking organ lessons with H. Åkerberg at Malmö and qualifying as an organist he entered the Stockholm Conservatory to study counterpoint and composition with E. Ellberg. He subsequently continued his studies at Leipzig and in Vienna, where he was a pupil of Alban Berg. He was coach at the Royal Theatre, Stockholm, in 1933–37 and music correspondent of 'Lunds Dagbladet' during the same period. Since 1937 he has been a conductor in the Swedish Radio Service. In 1934 and 1936 his Sinfonietta and second Symphony were performed at the I.S.C.M. Festival at Florence and Barcelona respectively. He was elected a member of the Academy of Music in 1943 and appointed professor of instrumentation and form at the High School of Music, Stockholm, in 1947.
3His compositions include:
5Opera 'The Princess of Cyprus', Op. 9 (1930–36).
6Opera buffa 'The Arrest at Bohus'.
7Incidental music to Shakespeare's 'Winter's Tale'.
8Incidental music to Shelley's 'Prometheus Unbound'.
9Incidental music to Schiller's 'Wilhelm Tell'.
10Music for c. 20 radio plays.
11Works for solo voices, chorus & orch. (some also with reciter).
12Symphony No. 1, Op. 2 (1927–28).
13Sinfonietta for strings, Op. 10 (1934).
14Serenade for stgs., Op. 12 (1934).
15Divertimento for chamber orch., Op. 15 (1935).
16Symphony No. 2, Op. 17 (1936).
17Symphonic poem 'Jorden sjunger', Op. 23 (1939).
18Suites for orch., including 'Gustavian Suite' for flute, harpsichord & stgs., Op. 28 (1943).
19Symphony No. 3, Op. 34 (1945).
20Concert Overture No. 3 (1948).
21'Music for Orchestra', Op. 40 (1948).
224 Vignettes for Shakespeare's 'Tempest' for orch.
23Pieces for small orch.
24Concerto for saxophone & orch., Op. 14 (1934).
25Concerto for cello & orch. (1948).
26String Quartet, D mi., (Op. 31 (1944).
27Sonatinas for pf. and for vn. & pf.
28Duo for vn. & viola, Op. 6 (1931).
29'Croquiser' for pf., Op. 38.
30Sonatina No. 2 for pf., Op. 39.
31Songs with pf. and with orch., &c.
33K. D.
35BIBL.—Article with full list of works in 'Musikvarlden' (1946).
36BROMAN, S., Article in 'Roster i Radio', 1946, No. 7.
37NYBLOM, T., 'Lars-Erik Larsson' in 'De nya herrarna' (Stockholm, 1945).
38PERGAMENT, M., 'Lars-Erik Larsson' in 'Svenska tonsättare' (Stockholm, 1943).
40LA RUE, Pierre de (b. Tournai, ?; d. Courtrai, 20 Nov. 1518).
41Netherlands composer. His father, Jean de La Rue, was attached to the chapel of Philippe le Beau in 1496–1501. He may have been a pupil of Okeghem's, but this is uncertain. His name first appears in the accounts of the court of Burgundy in 1477, and on 2 Apr. 1485 he is mentioned as a member of the chapel of the Archduke Maximilian of Austria, though doubtless with residence in the Netherlands, and for the period from 1490 to June 1491 he received 36 Rhenish guilders for service in the chapel of Our Lady at 's Hertogenbosch, where he again appeared in 1496 with visiting singers from the Burgundian court. He was at that time a chaplain, and on 8 Feb. 1501 he was made a canon of Mechlin. But this benefice, which was only one of several, may not have been residential. In 1502 he visited Spain with Philippe le Bel, and during a second visit the following year he was attached to the chapel at Valladolid. He was a canon of Courtrai from 1503, but did not live there until the end of his days, being at Mechlin about 1510–14 and at Termonde for some two years after that. Margaret of Austria, governess of the Netherlands, was his patroness from 1512.
43Writers on music have accorded La Rue a position as a contrapuntal composer scarcely second to that of Josquin, and the magnificent copies of his masses made by order of Margaret of Austria, and now in the libraries of Vienna and Brussels, testify to the value set upon his works by those he served. Indeed, considering his great reputation, it is somewhat surprising that so little of his music was printed. Of the thirty-six masses now existing Petrucci published five in the composer's lifetime ('Missae Petri de la Rue'; Venice, 1503), and a few more in later collections. Twenty-three remain in manuscript. Of motets only twenty-five (though thirty-eight have been identified), and of secular pieces no more than ten, are to be found in the publications of the 16th century — a small result compared with the long catalogue of Josquin's printed works. Burney, Forkel and Kiesewetter give short examples from Pierre de La Rue's compositions.
45J. R. S.-B., adds.
47(no line here) one of two readings
48BIBL.—DROZ, E. & THIBAULT, G., 'Bibliographie des recueils de chansons du XVe siècle' (Paris, 1930).
49MODERN REPRINTS.—BORDES, CHARLES, 'Trois Chansons du 15e siècle à 3 voix' (Rouart Lerolle, Paris).
50'Anthologie des maitres religieux primitifs' ('O Salutaris Hostias') (Bureau d'édition de la Schola Cantorum, Paris).
51EXPERT, HENRI, 'Les Maitres musiciens de la Renaissance française' (Missa, 'Ave Maria') (Senart, Paris).
52'Extraits des maitres musiciens de la Renaissance française' ('Ma mère, hélas! mariez-moy'; 'O Salutaris Hostia') (do.).
53RUBSAMEN, WALTER, 'Pierre de La Rue als Messenkomponist' (Munich, 1937).
55LARUETTE. A type of French vocal stage part associated in the 18th century and later with a singer of that name (see below).
57LARUETTE, Jean Louis (b. Toulouse, 27 Mar. 1731; d. Toulouse, Jan. 1792).
58French composer and singer. He went to Paris at an early age, joined the Opéra-Comique as actor and tenor singer in 1752 and soon began to contribute single airs to vaudeville comedies performed at the fairs of Saint-Germain and Saint-Laurent. His name as a composer of such airs first appears in 1753 (in 'Le Boulevard' and 'Le Plaisir et l'innocence') and, along with the general
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