Mariotte, Antoine (1875–1944)

French composer. A naval officer at first, he left the Navy in 1897 and became a student at the Schola Cantorum in Paris as a pupil of d'Indy. He conducted at Saint-Étienne and then at Lyon, and became director of the Orléans Conservatory in 1920. In 1935–39 he was director of the Opéra-Comique in Paris. He was accused of having plagiarized Richard Strauss in his Salomé, though his work was written before Strauss's was produced.

Works operas Salomé (Oscar Wilde, 1908), Le Vieux Roi (1911), Esther: Princesse d'Israël (1925), Léontine Sœurs, Nele Dooryn, Gargantua (after Rabelais); Avril, Pâques françaises and Toujours for unaccompanied chorus; Impressions urbaines and Kakemonos for piano and orchestra; En montagne for three wind or string instruments with string quintet or piano; piano music; songs.