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Henri Rabaud
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| Henri Rabaud, the son of a violincello professor and a singer, was a pupil of Gédalge and Massenet at the Paris Conservatoire, where he succeeded Fauré as director in 1920. He was conservative as a composer and known for his catch phrase "modernism is the enemy". He was also active as a conductor and directed the Opéra orchestra for ten years. 
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| Rabaud's opera "Mâruf, savetier du Caire" (Mâruf, Cobbler of Cairo) combines the Wagnerian and the exotic. He wrote other operas, including "L’Appel de la Mer" based on Synge’s "Riders to the Sea", as well as incidental music and film scores, such as the 1925 score for Joueur d'échecs (Chess-Player). Orchestral music by Rabaud includes a Divertissement on Russian songs and Eglogue, a Virgilian poem for orchestra, as well as the symphonic poem Procession nocturne.
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