1908-09

82^e ANNÉE: 1908-09

Committee

President: Gabriel Fauré

Vice-Pres., 1^r chef: André Messager

2^e chef: Ph. Gaubert

Secretary: Th. Heymann

Comm. pers.: Couppas

Comm. mat.: Charles Austruy

Agt. compt.: Mimart

Arch.-Caissier: Pierre Chavy

Rép. chant: Gallon

Memb. adj.: Willaume

Insp. Salle: Vernaelde

Caisse de Prévoyance

Secretary: Gasser

Agt. compt.: Louis Bleuzet

Treas.: Rose

Season

20 concerts

New works: Mozart: Idomeneo excerpts. Wagner: Die Meistersinger prelude, Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol, Schumann: Introduction and Allegro; Franck: Symphonic Variations; Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1; a cappella works of Passereau, Pierre de la Rue, Janequin.

Living French composers: Franck: Symphonic Variations, Les Éolides, Pierné: Concertstück for harp

Guest soloists: Raoul Pugno. Henriette Renié, harp, Galston, piano. Singers: de Montalant, Mastio, Mme Mell-Houert, Mlle Charbonnel, Mlle Rose Féart, Mlle Louise Grandjean (Isolde), Declo, Devriès, Froelich, Gilly, Busoi, Nanseon, Journet, (Père Laurence), Narçon, Bremont.

Assemblée Générale: 26 October 1908 extraordinaire (election of a 1^r chef); 26 May 1909

Personnel

Sociétaires: Nanny (doublebass, 607), Roubier (tenor, 608), Delmont (bass, 609), Messager (26 October 1908)

Separations: Bouffy (violin, 606; resigned), Guignot (tenor, 559; resigned, illness [see Deaths, below])

Deaths: Marty (conductor, 577; 11 October 1908), Taffanel (flute, conductor, 370; 21 November 1908), Leplat (violin, 561), Lafitte (bass, 414), Audan (bass, 464), Guignot (tenor, 559)

Sources

Minutes, Committee: D 17345 (17)

Minutes, Assemblée Générale: D 17342 (1), pp. 99-102 (26 October 1908), 103-06 (26 May 1909)

Secretary's Report: D 17341 See also Th. Heymann: "Notes sur les origines de la Société," D 17264 (18).