Marie-Joseph Canteloube de Malaret (21 October 1879 - November 4, 1957), was a French composer. Canteloube was born in Annonay, Ardèche and died at Grigny, Essonne, a part of the Île-de-France region.He is best known for his collection of orchestrated folk songs from the Auvergne region, Chants d?Auvergne ("Songs of the Auvergne"). Canteloube himself believed that "les chants paysans s?élèvent bien souvent au niveau de l?art le plus pur, par le sentiment et l?expression, sinon par la forme" ("peasant songs often rise to the level of purest art in terms of feeling and expression, if not in form").Canteloube studied music in Paris under Amélie Daetzer, a former pupil of Chopin. He also studied composition under Vincent d'Indy. His first composition, Colloque sentimental, dates from 1903. His other works include the operas Le Mas and Vercingétorix. In 1925, he founded La Bourrée, an association whose aim was to promote the Auvergne. In 1941, during the Nazi occupation of Franc

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