Émile Pierre Ratez
French musician
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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 there[1] and later a pupil of Bazin and of Jules Massenet at the Conservatoire de Paris in the 1870s.[1] In 1891, he became the director of the Lille branch of the Paris Conservatory.[1]
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),[3] a suite for violin and piano,[4] two operas Lydéric (premiered 1895, Lille) and Paula (premiered 1904, Besançon)[5][6] and many songs and other choral and piano works (&c...)[7] His six Pièces charactéristiques have been republished by Billaudot.[8]
