AURIC (Georges). - Lot 30

AURIC (Georges). Born in Lodève. 1899-1983. Composer. Friend of Stravinsky and Satie, he joined the Groupe des Six. He was president of the Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique (SACEM), director of the Réunion des théâtres lyriques nationaux from 1962 to 1968 and member of the cultural council of the Cercle Culturel de Royaumont. L.A.S. "Georges Auric" to organist and music critic Bernard Gavoty. Paris, March 19, 1965. 1 page in-8, letterhead of the Réunion des Théâtres lyriques nationaux, of which he was administrator. BEAUTIFUL LETTER. Auric thanks him for his article:...These few lines will tell you, all too quickly, how sensitive I was to what you have just described about me... My most sincere "Thank you" for the sympathy which, in these pages which I shall not forget, you have shown towards a musician who would be happy to still have the possibility of demonstrating that he is not quite dead to his art! GEORGES AURIC studied composition with Vincent d'Indy at the Schola Cantorum. Between 1915 and 1921, he met Stravinsky, Apollinaire, Radiguet, Braque, Picasso, Léon Bloy and Jacques Maritain. Jean Cocteau, Erik Satie, and became the most active member of the "Groupe des Six". In 1918, Cocteau dedicated Le Coq et l'arlequin to him; he also composed some 100 film scores for Marc Allégret, Jean Delannoy, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Max Ophüls, William Wyler, John Houston and Otto Preminger, and wrote music columns for various magazines. Following in Honegger's footsteps, he became president of the Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs in 1954, and honorary president in 1979. He was elected to the Institut in 1962. From 1962 to 1968, he was director of the Paris Opéra and Opéra Comique.