Julien Koszul

Julien Koszul
Julien Koszul
Born	4 December 1844; Morschwiller-le-Bas
Died	15 January 1927 (aged 82); Douai
Occupation(s)	Composer; Organist

Julien Koszul (4 December 1844 – 15 January 1927) was a French composer and pipe organist from Alsace.^[1]

Biography

Born in Morschwiller-le-Bas, Alsace, Koszul studied at the École Niedermeyer de Paris with Camille Saint-Saëns, together with Gabriel Fauré and Eugène Gigout as fellow students and friends.

He moved to Roubaix, where he took the direction of the National Conservatory of Music. He encouraged Albert Roussel to undertake an artistic career.

Composer Henri Dutilleux and mathematician Jean-Louis Koszul were his grandsons. Henri Dutilleux, who often recalled his memory, paid tribute to him in 2005 by being the originator of the publication of his correspondence.^[2]

Koszul died in Douai.

Selected compositions

1872: Deux Mélodies, poem by Charles Manso
1873: Romanzette pour piano. No 1, In E ♭, N ° 2, in C
1875: Puisque mai tout en fleurs ! Mélodie: No 1 contralto, baritone or mezzo-soprano
1877: Aubade! Mélody for tenor, lyric by Charles Manso
1879: S'il est un charmant Gazon !,^[3] poem by Victor Hugo
1879: Bonsoir, Madeleine! lullaby for soprano or tenor, poem by Marc Mounier
1879: Sonnet!, poem by Marc Monnier
1893: Cantate Nadaud, for solis, choir and military and symphonic orchesters, poem by Jules Rosoor ; score (piano and voice), Tourcoing : Rosoor-Delattre, (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
1902: Quo vadis! scène chorale, ..., poem by Jules Rosoor (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
1925: Yvonnette, little Walloon waltz, for piano
Première Valse (recording)^[4]