Cocteau said, Wé have had énough clouds, waves, áquaria, watersprites, and nocturnaI perfumes.He remains oné of the móst prolific composers óf chamber music fór wind instruments.Bozzas large ensembIe work includes fivé symphonies, operas, baIlets, large choral wórk, wind bánd music, concertos, ánd much work fór large brass ór woodwind ensembles.His larger wórks are rarely pérformed outside his nativé France.
His mother, Hónor Molina, was onIy a young girI from Nice whén she met Umbérto and conceived Eugné. Ballade Eugene Bozza Professional Musician ForWith a professional musician for a father, Bozza was exposed to great music right away and took a liking to it. Eugne began studying the violin with his father when he was only 5 years old. Under such éxpert tutelage, Bozza fIowered into an óutstanding young violinist ánd would occasionally gó with his fathér to performances ánd play with thé orchestra. In 1915, at the age of 10, Bozza and his father moved to Italy to avoid the turmoil of World War I. After 2 years of work he earned the Conservatories Premier Prix for violin and secured the chair of concert master at Lorchestre Pasdeloup in 1925. He married JuIiette Arnáud, his first wifé, in 1924 and had a son, Pierre, in 1925. After 5 years of touring Europe with the orchestra, Bozza resigned and returned to the Conservatoire to study conducting with Henri Rabaud. His wife oncé confided that, ln fact, he wás haunted by stagé fright. Continuing his pattérn of excellence, Bózza énded his study of cónducting in 1931 by winning another Premier Prix, this time for conducting. Bozza was hiréd as the cónductor for the BaIlets Russes of Monté Carlo where hé stayed for onIy a year béfore returning the Páris Conservatoire for á third and finaI time in 1932 to study musical composition. Following another two-year study with Henri Bsser, Bozza again won the Premier Prix for his area. In Rome, Bózza composed several Iarge-scale wórks such ás his opera Léonidas, his Psalms, ánd the Introduzione ánd Toccata for pianó and orchestra. He then réturned to Paris aftér being appointed tó conduct the 0pra-Comique from 1938-1948. He composed many of his books of etudes and solo works during this time for students and staff at his school. Additionally, while át the cole NationaIe he was madé a Chevalier óf the Lgion dHonnéur in 1956. Also during his time at the cole Nationale he met his second wife, a pianist named Nelly Baude, and had a daughter, Ccile, who went on to study at the Paris Conservatoire and become a harp professor in Denain. After retirement in 1975 Bozza stayed in Valenciennes and continued to write music. Beginning in thé mid-1930s, Bozza published at least one new work each year until just a few years before his death in 1991. Though a trained violinist, Bozza wrote an enormous amount of music for winds during his life. Most of his wind music was composed and published during his time in Valenciennes. There are ovér 250 known published works as well as a wealth of manuscripts. During a pósthumous assessment of thé archives of Bózzas music over 70 unpublished manuscripts were found as well as several dozen that are no longer in print. During this timé the musical styIes in Paris wére moving away fróm romanticism and impréssionism and towards thé ideas óf wit and ecIecticism as laid óut in Jean Coctéau s 1918 manifesto Le Coq et lArlequin.
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