Maurice Baron(1889-1964)
- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Composer, conductor, songwriter, violinist, arranger and publisher,
educated at the Lille Conservatory and studied with A. W. Lilienthal.
He was the assistant conductor for the Boston Opera Company, violinist
with the Seattle Symphony, and violist with the San Francisco Symphony.
He was the general music director at the Roxy Theatre in New York, and
staff composer and conductor at the Radio City Music Hall in New York
between 1932-1939, and conducted other symphony orchestras and for
radio. The French government awarded him the title "Officier
d'Academie". He founded his own publishing firm in 1937, and founded
and led the Society for French-American Symphonic Music Abroad, and its
affiliate, Association Musicale Franco-Americaine. He joined ASCAP in
1926, and his compositions include: "Ode to Democracy" (setting to
Lincoln's Gettysburg address); "Villon (opera)"; "Fosteriana"; "The
Conqueror"; "American Gothic (clarinet and orchestra)"; "The Enchanted
Forest (operetta)"; "The Wedding Festival (tone poem)"; and "Indian
Wedding Festival". His popular-song compositions include: "Kissamiss"
and "I Must Be Going to the Dogs". "The
