Émile Pierre Ratez


Émile Pierre Ratez was a French composer, administrator, and violist.
Ratez was born in Besançon on 5 November 1851 and became a pupil of Pierre De Mol at the music school there and later a pupil of Bazin and of Jules Massenet at the Conservatoire de Paris in the 1870s. In 1891, he became the director of the Lille branch of the Paris Conservatory.
Ratez died in Lille on 19 May 1934.
His compositions include some chamber music, a suite for violin and piano, two operas Lydéric and Paula and many songs and other choral and piano works
His six Characteristic Pieces have been republished by Billaudot.

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