Roland Douatte (7 December 1921, in

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– 16 December 1992, in Paris) was a French classical violinist and

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. A self-taught violinist, he founded his own chamber orchestra, the "Collegium Musicum of Paris" in 1952. Roland Douatte is one of the first conductors to be interested and to make Vivaldi's '' The Four Seasons'' and other musics of the

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era known, including Delalande's Simphonies pour les soupers du Roi.Simphonies pour le Souper du Roy
(IMSLP) In 1967, he became

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of the .

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Roland Douatte
(Bach Cantatas Website)
Roland Douatte and Orchestre... - Gymnopédie no. 1
(YouTube) {{DEFAULTSORT:Douatte, Roland French male conductors (music) 20th-century French violinists 20th-century French male musicians French male classical violinists 1921 births Musicians from Paris 1992 deaths 20th-century French conductors (music)