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{{Short description|French conductor and composer}}
{{infobox person
|name=Marcel Labey
|image=Marcel Labey.jpg
|birth_date={{birth date|1875|8|6|df=y}}
|birth_place=[[Le Vésinet]], [[Île-de-France]], France
|death_date={{death date and age|1968|11|25|1875|8|6|df=y}}
|death_place=[[Nancy, France]]
|nationality=French
|education=[[Schola Cantorum de Paris]]
|occupation={{flatlist|
*Conductor
*composer
}}
|spouse=Charlotte Sohy
}}
'''Marcel Labey''' (6 August 1875, [[Vésinet]] – 25 November 1968, [[Nancy, France|Nancy]]) was a French conductor and composer.

== Life ==
He was born to a family of magistrates and studied law in Paris (gaining his doctorate in 1898) before turning to music. He learned piano under [[Élie-Miriam Delaborde]] and [[Louis Breitner]], and harmony under [[René Lenormand]]. He met [[Vincent d'Indy]] who made him follow his courses at the [[Schola Cantorum de Paris|Schola Cantorum]]. The [[First World War]] interrupted his musical studies and career - he was wounded twice and mentioned in dispatches four times.

At the [[Schola Cantorum de Paris|Schola Cantorum]], he taught piano and (until the death of Vincent d'Indy) was one of its under-directors, and later became the co-founder and director of the [[Ecole César Franck]] (1935-962). He was also secretary of France's Société nationale de musique.

His wife [[Charlotte Sohy]] (1887–1955), herself a student of d'Indy, composed a symphony, melodies, four [[string quartet]]s and a lyric drama in 3 acts called ''L'Esclave Couronnée'', which adapted a novel by [[Selma Lagerlöf]] and was put on at [[Mulhouse]] on 6 May 1947.

== Works ==
He rediscovered the "esprit franckiste" in his compositions.

=== Opera ===
''Bérangère'', liturgical drama in 3 acts (1911–1913; Le Havre, 12 April 1929)

=== Orchestral music ===

* ''Fantaisie'' (1900)
* ''4 symphonies'' (1903 - 1908 - 1933 - 1940)
* ''Ouverture pour un drame'' (1920; Paris, 22 January 1921)
* ''Lied'' for cello and orchestra (1920)
* ''Suite champêtre'' (1922)
* ''Eglogue'' (1943)
* ''Triptyque symphonique'' (1947)
* ''Symphonietta'' for chamber orchestra (1950)
* ''Paysages marins'' (1952)
* ''Symphonie pour cordes'' (1954)
* ''Poème'' for piano and orchestra (1957)

=== Chamber and instrumental music ===

* ''Sonate pour piano'' (1900)
* ''sonates pour violon et piano'' (1901 - 1924 - 1951 - 1954)
* ''Sonate pour alto et piano'', op.7 (1904)
* ''Quatuor avec piano'' (1911)
* ''Suite pour piano'' (1914)
* ''Quatuors à cordes '' (1919–1948)
* ''2 Trios avec piano'' (1922–1937)
* ''Quintette avec piano'' (1929)
* ''Trio à cordes (1929)
* ''Sonate pour violoncelle et piano'' (1944)
* ''Sextuor à cordes'' (1959)
* ''des pièces pour piano et orgue''
* ''des mélodies''
* publication of adaptations for piano of several orchestral works by Vincent d'Indy :''Symphonie en si bémol'', ''Jour d'été à la montagne'', etc.

== External links ==
* {{in lang|fr}} [http://www.musimem.com/labey.htm Marcel Labey]
* {{in lang|fr}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20070926215020/http://www.resonances-bretagne.org/spip2005/00/article.php3?id_article=284 Breton composers]
* {{IMSLP|id=Labey, Marcel}}

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[[Category:1875 births]]
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[[Category:French composers]]
[[Category:French male composers]]
[[Category:French conductors (music)]]
[[Category:French male conductors (music)]]
[[Category:Schola Cantorum de Paris alumni]]

Marcel Labey - Revision history

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