Raymond Loucheur


Raymond Loucheur was a French composer.

Life

Very early, he left the town of Tourcoing where he was born to study at Le Havre with Henri Woollett who had Arthur Honegger among his students. Then, he entered the Conservatoire de Paris and worked with Henri Dallier, Paul Fauchet, Nadia Boulanger for harmony, André Gedalge for counterpoint and fugue, Max d'Ollone and Paul Vidal for musical composition, Vincent d'Indy for conducting. At the same time, Joseph Baggers taught him the practice of timpani.
In 1928, he brilliantly won the 1st Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata Héraklès à Delphes on a libretto by René Puaux and performed on 26 October 1929 by the Concerts Lamoureux where it received an excellent welcome.
Between 1925 and 1940, he taught in schools in the city of Paris. In 1935, he received the Georges Bizet Prize. In 1942, he was principal inspector of music education in the schools of the Seine then became general inspector of public instruction and director of the Conservatoire de Paris.
He received the Grand Prix national de musique in 1934.
Loucheur died in Nogent-sur-Marne at age 80.

Works

Ballet