1905-06

79^e ANNÉE: 1905-06

Committee

President: Gabriel Fauré (Th. Dubois until 30 September 1905)

Vice-Pres., 1^r chef: Georges Marty

2^e chef: Ph. Gaubert

Secretary: A. Seitz

Comm. pers.: Wenner

Comm. mat.: Girod

Agt. compt.: Rose (prorogé)

Arch.-Caissier: Chavy

Rép. chant: Schvartz

Memb. adj.: Bleuzet

Insp. Salle: Crétinon

Caisse de Prévoyance

Secretary: Gasser

Agt. compt.: Vuillermoz

Treas.: Rose

Season

20 concerts

First performances (13): Bach: Orchestral Suite [No. 3?] in D Major; cantata Herr, wie du willst, cantata Le Défi de Phoebus and Pan. Franck: Rebecca. Balakirev: Cantata for monument to Glinka.

Living French composers: Fauré: Cantique de Racine, Pelléas et Mélisande suite, Magnard: Symphonie, Hue: La Belle au bois dormant, Hillemacher brothers: Loreley excerpts. Bourgault-Ducoudray: Rapsodie cambodgienne. Le Borne: L'Absent excerpts. Debussy: Afternoon of a Faun.

Guest soloists: Cortot (d'Indy), Delaborde (Beethoven). Francis Planté. Boucherit, Casals.

Assemblée Générale: 30 December 1905 extraordinaire (statutes, article 8bis: orchestra, chorus can appear separately), 22 May 1906

Personnel

Sociétaires (6 June 1905): Sureau-Bellet (bass ch., 591), Duttenhofer (violin, 592), Lebailly (clarinet, 593), F. Luquin (violin, 594)

Separations: Thevelin (tenor, 522; retired, m. h.), Cabassol (cello, 402; retired, m. h.), Vannereau (viola, 432; retired, m. h.), Gianini (viola, 2d chef, 473; retired, m. h.), Schvartz (viola, chorusmaster, 513), Vuillermoz (horn, 539; resigned to move to Monte Carlo, returned 1925 with same no.)

Deaths: Aubéry (bass ch., 410), Teste (trumpet, 418), Masson (bass ch., 409), Viguier (viola, 334), Danbé (violin, 2d chef, 361)

Sources

Minutes, Committee: D 17345 (16)

Minutes, Assemblées Générales: D 17342 (1), pp. 50-65 (30 December 1905), 66-74 (22 May 1906)

Secretary's Report: D 17341 (Seitz)