Dwight Yoakam - Little Ways

KEKLIN, Köchlin (Koechlin) Charles (27 XI 1867, Paris - 31 XII 1950, Le Canadelle, Var) - French composer, music. theorist and writer, societies. figure. Alsatian by origin. In 1897 he graduated from the Paris Conservatory, where he studied with A. Todu (harmony), A. Zhedalzha (counterpoint and fugue), J. Massenet, G. Foret (composition). K. was a major teacher, among his students - F. Pulenk, A. Sohe. As a composer, he joined the moderate direction in sovr. French to music. Connoisseur Nar. songs, K. perfectly mastered the art of polyphony. Created by decomp. genres - opera, ballets, symphonies, chamber ensembles, romances, etc. The author of mass songs, including the song “Freedom to Telman” (for choir and orchestra, 1934, in USA trans. - in collection: “Anti-fascist songs ", M., 1939). He took part in the collective writing of music for the drama of R. Rollan "July 14" (1936).Progressive French the composer, K. was a prominent figure in the People’s Musical Federation, one of the founders of the France-USSR society (chairman of his music section). Among his theoretical. the works distinguished capital work "Treatise on Harmony" (1927-30).