Marcel Stern (composer)
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Marcel Stern (4 November 1909 – 2 August 1989) was a French composer and violinist.[1]
Born in Paris, Stern studied at the Conservatoire de Paris and won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome in 1936 with the cantata Gisèle.[2][3] After his stay at the Villa Medici in Rome, the Société Nationale performed his Divertissement for Orchestra in Paris in 1939.[4]
The Second World War interrupted his musical career, though he completed his symphony La Libération during the Liberation in Cannes.[5] 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.[5] Among his other works are Iberica from Deux pièces pour flûte seule (1964),[6] and the Concerto: pour piano et orchestre (1968).[7] He also composed several transcriptions of works by other composers for violin and orchestra, including George Enescu's First Romanian Rhapsody.
