78e ANNÉE: 1904-05

Committee

President: Théodore Dubois

Vice-Pres., 1r chef: Georges Marty

2e chef: Gianini, succ. 29 November 1904 by Philippe Gaubert

Secretary: A. Seitz

Comm. pers.: Wenner

Comm. mat.: Girod

Agt. compt.: Rose

Arch.-Caissier: Chavy

Rép. chant: Schvartz

Memb. adj.: Tracol

Insp. Salle: Siguier

Caisse de Prévoyance

   Secretary: Gasser

   Agt. compt.: Vuillermoz

   Treas.: Rose

Season

20 concerts + Prix de Paris concerts (Tournemire: Le Sang de la Sirène) 20 November 1904 and apparently another at the Th. de la Gaité, concert 4 May 1905 to benefit a Beethoven monumet in Paris.

New Works: Handel: Saul; Liszt: Christus, part I; Rimsky-Korsakov: Piano Concerto.

Living French composers: Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 2; Ropartz: Fantaisie in D Major; Chausson (instr. d'Indy): Chant funèbre; Alexandre Georges: Deux Préludes pour Axel; Alfred Bruneau: Penthesilée; Fauré: Madrigal and Pavane; Paladilhe: Stabat mater. Franck: Les Béatitudes.

Soloists: Jacques Thibaud, Henri Marteau, Holmann, Ricardo Viñes, Raoul Pugno.

Assemblées Générales: 29 November 1904 extraordinaire (auditions, election of a 2e chef: Gaubert), 26 May 1905

Personnel

Sociétaires: (14 June 1904): Mille (tenor, 585); (28 June 1904): Barraine (cello, 586); (4 October 1904): Pickett (doublebass, 587); (11 October 1904): C.  Le Métayer (viola, 588).

Separations: Balbreck (viola, 552), Bas (oboe, 502), Gianini (viola, 473), Touche (violin, 560)

Deaths: Bernard (bass ch., 516), Lenoble (bass ch., 533), Palianti (bass ch., 519), Mme Poncet, Dumas (violin, 298), Viguier (viola, 334), Baptiste Marty (tenor, 389), A. Turban (violin, 411).

Sources

Minutes, Committee: D 17345 (16)

Minutes, Assemblées Générales: D 17342 (1), pp. 38-41 (29 November 1904), 42-49 (26 May 1905)

Secretary's Report: D 17341 (26 May 1905, Seitz)