Pierre Lantier

{{Short description|French composer and pianist}}

Pierre Lantier (30 April 1910 – 4 April 1998) was a French composer and pianist, and the husband of fellow composer Paule Maurice.

Born in Marseille, Lantier was affiliated with the Conservatoire de Paris.{{cite web|title=Program Notes (by Chris Rettie) to the album 'Fault Lines': West Point Saxophone Quartet|url=http://www.usma.edu/band/SitePages/sax4_fault_lines.aspx|accessdate=2012-12-17}} In 1937, he won the prestigious Prix de Rome composition scholarship (a prize he shared with Victor Serventi).{{cite web|title=Prix de Rome 1930-1939|url=http://www.musimem.com/prix-rome-1930-1939.htm|language=French|accessdate=2012-12-17}}Sax, Mule & Co, Jean-Pierre Thiollet, H & D, Paris, 2004, p. 142. {{ISBN|2 914 266 03 0}}

One of Lantier's most widely known works is a Sicilienne for alto saxophone and piano.Lantier, P., Sicilienne pour saxophone alto et piano, Paris: Alphonse Leduc, 1944. His many other chamber-music pieces include Andante et Scherzetto, for saxophone quartet; an Introduction, Romance, et Allegro, for bass trombone and piano; a sonata for trumpet and piano; and Euskaldunak, a sonata for alto saxophone and piano.

His larger-scale compositions include a Requiem (premiered in 1981), as well as three works for piano and orchestra.{{cite book | author=Hinson, Maurice | title=Music for Piano and Orchestra: an Annotated Guide | location=Bloomington, Indiana | publisher=Indiana University Press | year=1993 | page=163 | isbn=0-253-20835-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=byCpPO67y40C&q=pierre+lantier+1910&pg=PA163|accessdate=2008-05-18}} His music continues to be championed by present-day conductor Patrick Botti.{{cite web|title=Patrick Botti, Conductor: Repertoire|url=http://www.patrickbotti.com/repertoire.html|accessdate=2012-12-17}}

Pierre Lantier died on 4 April 1998 in Ollioules in southeastern France.{{cite web|title=Obituaires:Le Panthéon des musiciens - De septembre 1997 à août 1998|url=http://www.musimem.com/obi-0997-0898.htm|publisher=Musica et memoria|language=French|accessdate=2008-05-18}}