Aymé Kunc (20 January 1877 – 13 February 1958) was a French composer and administrator.
Career
Born in
Toulouse, Kunc won second prize alongside
Maurice Ravel in the
Prix de Rome competition of 1902. Until 1907 he conducted the orchestra of the
Théâtre Apollo in Paris. In 1914 he became the director of the Toulouse Conservatory, in which capacity he served for thirty years until 1944. He died in Toulouse aged 81.
Beginning in 1996, the Association Aymé Kunc has promoted the composer's music, and has recorded a number of his works, including the Messe de Sainte-Cécile.
Selected works
Music for the stage
Les Esclaves, opera (1911)
Les Armes de Vulcain, ballet
Les Dieux morts , ballet
Pastorale antique, ballet
Orchestral works
Ouverture de fête (1904-1907)
Suite dramatique (1904-1907)
Feuillets d'album
Quatre Esquisses méditerranéennes (1949)
Cloches d'Automne
Prelude and final
Fantaisie, for piano and orchestra (1904–07)
Pensée musicale, for harp and orchestra (1916)
Quatre Pièces, for flute and orchestra
Pastorales, for violin and orchestra (1919)
Légende, for viola and orchestra (1931)
Poème, for cello and orchestra (1943)
Nocturne, for horn and orchestra
Chamber music
Sonata for Violin and Piano
Fantaisie en forme de danse, for violin and piano
Pastorale, for violin and piano
Suite symphonique, for two cellos and piano
Suite, for flute, cello and piano
Trio, for violin, cello and piano
Piano Quartet
String Quartet No. 1 (1946)
String Quartet No. 2 (1948)
Pièces brèves, for string quartet
Petite Suite, for wind quintet
Wind Quintet (1954)
Scherzetto, for wind quintet
Asturiana, for wind quintet
Keyboard works
Piano music
Scherzetto
Simples chansons
Organ music
Scherzetto
Fantaisie symphonique
Vocal music
Cantatas
Cantate pour le couronnement de Dante (1921)
Hymne des ailes
Choral works (à cappella or with piano or small ensemble)