Ollone, Max (1875-1959)

French conductor and composer. He studied under Massenet and Lenepveu at the Paris Conservatory and gained the Prix de Rome in 1897. After conducting both concerts and the Opéra-Comique at Angers, Geneva, and Paris, and touring as a conductor he became professor at the Conservatory in 1939.

Works Vocal operas Le Retour, Les Amants de Rimini (after Dante, 1912), Les Uns et les autres (on a comedy by Verlaine, 1922), L'Arlequin, Georges Dandin (after Molière, 1930), and La Samaritaine (after Rostand, 1937); oratorio François d'Assise, cantatas Frédégonde (1897), Jeanne d'Arc à Domrémy; songs.

Instrumental ballet Le Peuple abandonné; pantomime Bacchus et Silène; fantasy for piano and orchestra, Le Ménétrier for violin and orchestra, string quartet, piano trio.