Émile Pierre Ratez (also René Emile Ratez; 5 November 1851 – 19 May 1934) was a French composer, administrator, and violist.
Life Ratez was born in Besançon and became a pupil of Pierre De Mol at the music school thereSee Grandemusica.net (http://grandemusica.net/musical-biographies-r-1/ratez-emile-pierre ), Hubbard (The American History and Encyclopedia of Music: Musical biographies, p. 194) and Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians 3rd Edition (1919) p. 202 for identification of "Demol" in that article as either Pierre De Mol or his nephew François-Marie and Baker's p. 742 for further biography of Ratez. and later a pupil of Bazin and of Jules Massenet at the Conservatoire de Paris in the 1870s. In 1891, he became the director of the Lille branch of the Paris Conservatory.
Ratez died in Lille on 19 May 1934. One source (Opernlexikon) has August 1925.
Music His compositions include some chamber music: at least three piano trios, a piano quintet, a cello sonata, at least two violin sonatas, a string trio, for example),IMSLP; the cello sonata has not yet as of 2014 January been uploaded to IMSLP but is noted (copy at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France); a piano trio in C major Op. 24 not at IMSLP is also at BNF - a suite for violin and piano, two operas Lydéric (premiered 1895, Lille) and Paula (premiered 1904, Besançon)Vocal score of Lydéric published in 1896 by Alphonse Leduc. See the Bibliographie de la France, 26 December 1896 issue, p. 833. and many songs and other choral and piano works (&c...)Worldcat. His six Pièces charactéristiques have been republished by Billaudot.See e.g.
Discography 2016: Acte Préalable AP 0358 – Émile Pierre Ratez - Exhibition 1 2016: Acte Préalable AP 0366 – Émile Pierre Ratez - Exhibition 2
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