12 Facts About Henri Sauguet

Henri Sauguet's output includes operas, ballets, four symphonies, concertos, chamber and choral music and numerous songs, as well as film music.

When Henri Collet dubbed a group of Paris-based composers Les Six, Sauguet started writing to one of its members, Darius Milhaud.

Henri Sauguet began to refer to himself and two Bordeaux friends, Louis Emie and Jean-Marcel Lizotte, as 'Les Trois'.

Henri Sauguet wrote a piano suite called Trois Francaises which so impressed Milhaud that he encouraged the young man to move to Paris.

Henri Sauguet gained his greatest popularity with his ballets, of which he wrote over twenty.

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Henri Sauguet wrote numerous works for radio, television, stage, and film, and a large quantity of chamber and other instrumental works, including solos for harmonica and musical saw, but his particular talent was vocal music.

Henri Sauguet worked ten years on La chartreuse de Parme - based on Stendhal's novel - an opera that had a reputation in France as his most important work.

Henri Sauguet used his reputation during this time to help his Jewish friends but lost the oldest-established among them, Max Jacob, who died in the Drancy internment camp.

Henri Sauguet worked as a music critic throughout the 1930s and 1940s.

Henri Sauguet founded the Composers Union, devoting his time to Una Voce, an organization that works to preserve Latin and traditional chant in the Roman Catholic liturgy.

In 1956 Henri Sauguet was made an Officer of the Legion of Honour and succeeded his friend Milhaud into the French Academy in 1976.

When Henri Sauguet died in Paris in 1989, he was buried at the Montmartre Cemetery in the same grave as Dupont and next to that of Andre Jolivet in Section 27, near the grave of Hector Berlioz.