Jean-Louis Petit (composer)

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Jean-Louis Petit (born August 20, 1937 in Faverolles ) is a French conductor , harpsichordist and composer . He is one of the most important personalities on the contemporary French music scene. His oeuvre includes over 400 compositions of all genres and his discography over 50 recordings.

Life

Jean-Louis Petit studied organ with Arsène Muzerelle and composition with Georges Moineau at the Conservatoire de Reims . This was followed by composition studies with Simone Plé-Caussade and Olivier Messiaen at the Conservatoire de Paris . He learned conducting with Léon Barzin at the Schola Cantorum , with Igor Markevitch , Pierre Dervaux and Eugène Bigot in Madrid, Monaco and Santiago de Chile, with Franco Ferrara in Venice and Rome, with Manuel Rosenthal at the CNSMP and with Louis Auriacombe and Pierre Boulez in Basel.

In order to take music out of Paris, he founded the Orchester de Chambre Jean-Louis Petit in 1958 , which worked in Champagne until 1963 and in Picardy from 1964 to 1970 . The Honorary President of the Chamber Orchestra is Olivier Messiaen. He has produced for radio (including ORTF , ORF , SRG SSR , BBC , RIAS , NDR , WDR ) and television and toured Europe and the United States. Petit has conducted international symphony orchestras in Europe, North America and Asia a. a. the New York Philharmonic , the Orchester Philharmonique de Radio France, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia , the Symphony New Brunswick, the Orchester Symphonique de la Radio- Télévision Espagnole, the Orchester de Paris and the Cairo Symphony Orchestra .

In 1963 he made 33 records for Decca Records . The Grand Siècle Collection includes works u. a. by André Campra , Étienne Ozi , Claude Balbastre , Antoine Dauvergne , François Couperin , Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville , Jean-Baptiste Bréval , François Francœur , Louis de Caix d'Hervelois , Joseph Bodin de Boismortier , Jean-Marie Leclair , Jean- Baptiste Loeillet de Gant , Jean-Joseph Mouret , Jacques Aubert , Louis-Gabriel Guillemain , François Devienne , Jean-Baptiste Lully , Jean-Philippe Rameau , Marin Marais , Michel Blavet and Jacques-Christophe Naudot . More than 500 works of French baroque music were transcribed by him.

In 1969 he took part in the 7th Dimitri Mitropoulos International Music Competition (for conductors) in New York.

Jean-Louis Petit's place of work, the Château de Thierry, Ville-d'Avray

From 1972 to 1977 he was co-director of the Festival Estival de Paris , a Parisian summer festival for classical and contemporary music, together with Bernard Bonaldi . In 1972 he was appointed rector of the École Nationale de Musique de Ville-d'Avray near Paris, which he headed until 2005. In 1974 he was a founding member of the contemporary music group Musique Plus with François Bayle , Jacques Bourgeois and Ivo Malec . To interpret contemporary music, he founded the Atelier Musique de Ville-d'Avray in 1974 . In 1978 he was director of the Association musicale international d'echange (AMIE). Since 1979 he has been the organizer of the Festival de Musique Française at the Château de Thierry , Ville-d'Avray. It was there that he founded several international music competitions such as the 1998 Concours International d'Interprétation Musicale de Ville-d'Avray .

Awards

Works (selection)

Petit composed more than 400 works, including orchestral works, two operas and oratorios. His compositions are based on his teacher Olivier Messiaen and on Arnold Schönberg's twelve-tone technique .

  • Chose Dite, (duet, 1958)
  • Le Diable dans le Befroi, (Ballet, 1984)
  • Permutations, (Sextet, 1986)
  • La Chronosphere, (children's opera, 1990)
  • Petite Symphonie Cajun, (oratorio, 1991)
  • Triad I, (Trio, 1995)
  • Sortisatio I, (Quartet, 1996)
  • Etoiles, (orchestral music, 2002)
  • Lily Strada, (Opera, 2004)

Discography (selection)

His discography amounts to over 50 records, most of which have been released by Decca Records and REM.

literature

  • Petit, Jean-Louis. In: John L. Holmes: Conductors on Record. Greenwood Press, Westport 1982, ISBN 0-575-02781-9 , pp. 505-506.
  • Petit, Jean-Louis . In: Europa Publications (Ed.): International Who's Who in Classical Music 2012 . 28th edition, Routledge, London 2012, ISBN 978-1-85743-644-0 , p. 674.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jean-Louis Petit at the publisher thirty-four
  2. ↑ a b c d e International Who's Who in Classical Music 2012, p. 674.
  3. ^ Jean-Louis Petit at Editions Francois Dhalmann.
  4. ^ A b John L. Holmes: Conductors on Record, p. 506.
  5. ^ A b Jean-Louis Petit at Verlag Dohr.
  6. ^ Billboard Magazine, December 18, 1965, p. 28.
personal data
SURNAME Petit, Jean-Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French conductor, harpsichordist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Faverolles , France