|
Lucien Thévet
Lucien Thévet (June 3, 1914 June 30, 2007) was a twentieth-century French horn player and teacher in France. Early life and education Lucien Thévet's father, Eugène Thévet, an amateur musician who played the cornet, introduced his son starting at age six to various wind instruments, but the horn became Lucien's preference. He soon began performing as a soloist with local musical groups, along with his father, in particular with the Beauvais Philharmonic Society. In 1933, he entered the Paris Conservatory in the horn class of Fernand Reine and, in 1937, received First Prize for Horn in the class of Louis-Édouard Vuillermoz. Career Thévet's professional career began in May 1937 with the Paris Radio Symphony Orchestra (renamed the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in 1964) when he won the audition for first horn, a position he held until 1941. Starting in 1938, he became principal horn of the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra (l'Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Horn
The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most often used by players in professional orchestras and bands, although the descant and triple horn have become increasingly popular. A musician who plays a horn is known as a list of horn players, horn player or hornist. Pitch is controlled through the combination of the following factors: speed of air through the instrument (controlled by the player's lungs and thoracic diaphragm); diameter and tension of lip aperture (by the player's lip muscles—the embouchure) in the mouthpiece; plus, in a modern horn, the operation of Brass instrument valve, valves by the left hand, which route the air into extra sections of tubing. Most horns have lever-operated rotary valves, but some, especially older horns, use piston valves (similar to a trumpet's) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Rosenthal
Manuel Rosenthal (18 June 1904 – 5 June 2003) was a French composer and conductor who held leading positions with musical organizations in France and the United States. He was friends with many contemporary composers, and despite a considerable list of compositions is mostly remembered for having orchestrated the popular ballet score ''Gaîté Parisienne'' from piano scores of Offenbach operettas, and for his recordings as a conductor. Early life and career Rosenthal was born in Paris to Anna Devorsosky, of Russian-Jewish descent, and a French father he never met.Nichols R. Manuel Rosenthal: Obituary. ''The Guardian'', 9 June 2003. His surname was taken from his stepfather, Bernard Rosenthal. He started his musical studies on violin at age 6, which he played in cafés and cinemas after his stepfather's death in 1918 to support his mother and sisters.Anderson, Martin, "A Century in Music: Manuel Rosenthal in Conversation" (April 2000). ''Tempo'' (New Ser.) (212): pp. 31-37. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro De Freitas Branco
Pedro de Freitas Branco (1896–1963) was a Portuguese conductor and composer. Life and career Branco was born in Lisbon, and studied music with Tomás Vaz de Borba and LuĂs de Freitas Branco (his elder brother). He founded the Portuguese Opera Company in 1926, and conducted the state symphony orchestra from 1934. Branco made his Paris debut in 1932 in a concert of Maurice Ravel's music at the Salle Pleyel conducting '' Daphnis et ChloĂ©'', '' Pavane pour une infante defunte'', '' Rapsodie espagnole'', '' La valse'' and ''BolĂ©ro''. At the same concert Ravel conducted the premiere of his G major Piano Concerto. He was not a good conductor, and when the concerto was recorded soon after the premiere, his name appeared as conductor on the label of the disc and in advertisements, but in fact Branco conducted the orchestra under Ravel's supervision at the recording sessions. By the 1940s Branco was regarded as the leading conductor in Lisbon."Music in the Peninsula", ''The Times ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Leibowitz
René Leibowitz (; ; 17 February 1913 – 29 August 1972) was a Polish and French composer, conductor, music theorist and teacher. He was historically significant in promoting the music of the Second Viennese School in Paris after the Second World War, and teaching a new generation of serialist composers. Leibowitz remained firmly committed to the musical aesthetic of Arnold Schoenberg, and was to some extent sidelined among the French avant-garde in the 1950s, when, under the influence of Leibowitz's former student, Pierre Boulez and others, the music of Schoenberg's pupil Anton Webern was adopted as the orthodox model by younger composers. Although his compositional ideas remained strictly serialist, as a conductor Leibowitz had broad sympathies, performing works by composers as diverse as Gluck, Beethoven, Brahms, Offenbach and Ravel, and his repertory extended to include pieces by Gershwin, Puccini, Sullivan and Johann Strauss. Life and career Early years The facts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre-Michel Le Conte
Pierre-Michel Le Conte (6 March 1921 – 16 October 2000) was a French Conducting, conductor. Biography Born in Rouen, at age 5 Le Conte entered the . Then he began piano and violin studies at the École normale de musique de Paris. He finished his studies at the Conservatoire de Paris with a First Prize (music diploma), first prize for bassoon in 1944, then a first prize in orchestral conducting, in 1947. He successively held the positions of music director at Radio Nice, then at Radio Toulouse from 1949 to 1950, before settling in Paris, where he occasionally directed the orchestre de la Société des concerts du Conservatoire. But it was at the Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française then at the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française that he made most of his career, conducting the Orchestre National de France, the chamber orchestra and overall the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France (specializing in lyrical repertoire), of which he became permanent conductor f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
