Inghelbrecht, Désiré-Émile

Inghelbrecht, Désiré-Émile – 3 Poèmes Dansés (1923) for orchestra

(b. Paris, September 17, 1880 – d. Paris, February 14, 1965)

Foreword
Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht is regarded today above all as a particularly authentic interpreter of the orchestral works of Claude Debussy, his close friend and mentor, which were captured in several recordings. A native of Paris, he spent most of his life in his hometown, where he trained at the Conservatoire and, beginning in 1913, held leading positions as a conductor at various institutions. His compositional oeuvre, developed in parallel, did not, however, receive the same attention as the works of his renowned contemporaries, even though—as in the case of the present Trois poèmes dansés—it was frequently performed and widely published through radio recordings and sheet music publications.

From 1920 to 1923, Inghelbrecht served as music director of the Ballets suédois, during which time he developed a relationship with the sensational dancer Carina Ari (Maria Karina Viktoria Jansson, 1897–1970). On June 27, 1925, the couple presented a production at the Opéra-Comique unlike anything previously seen in this form at the Salle Favart. The proceeds from this afternoon performance, dedicated entirely to dance, benefited the families of the fishermen and rescue workers who had drowned in stormy seas a year earlier in Penmarch, in the Finistère department. Ari compiled the music and danced seven miniatures she had choreographed herself under the title Scènes dansées, for some of which she had also created costumes and stage sets.1 The fact that she included a work by the Swedish composer Tor Aulin, who had died as early as 1914, should primarily be understood as a tribute to her homeland. The remaining compositions were created by Angelo Cassado, Reynaldo Hahn, Arthur Honegger, Florent Schmitt, and Émile Vuillermoz, as well as by Inghelbrecht with Rêve and La Danse pour les Oiseaux. At the time, he was the musical director at the Opéra-Comique and conducted the premiere. …

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