Émile Tavan
Émile Hypolite Joseph Tavan (born February 26, 1849 in Aix-en-Provence ; died December 26, 1929 in Gassicourt ) was a French composer and arranger .
Life
Émile Tavan was the son of François Marius Xavier Tavan and Virginie Marie Anne Roux. He attended the Conservatory in Aix and got a beginner's position as conductor of a café orchestra. In 1874/75 he went to Paris and worked as a conductor for dance and entertainment orchestras. In 1890 he led the orchestra in the Eiffel Tower restaurant . In 1900 he was conductor of the orchestra at the Paris World Exhibition . He composed his own dance and entertainment arrangements on topics such as the Blue Danube, Hungary, Russia, Seville and Arabian Nights.
Tavan composed fantasies for the current opera and operetta repertoire. In 1887 he published the textbook Méthode pratique d'orchestration symphonique for orchestration, which received several editions.
Among his opera arrangements in the form of “Fantaisie-Mosaïques” are Siegfried by Richard Wagner , Carmen by Georges Bizet , Robert le diable and Les Huguenots by Giacomo Meyerbeer , La Bohème , Tosca and Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini , Norma by Vincenzo Bellini , Il trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi , Lakmé by Léo Delibes and by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Die Zauberflöte . Among the operetta adaptations Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss Sohn , La poupée by Edmond Audran , as well as La Fille du Tambour-Major and Barbe bleue by Jacques Offenbach .
In 1894 Tavan moved to Gassicourt and became mayor for several years. He was appointed Officier de l'Instruction Publique.
Tavan was buried in Aix. The city of his birth dedicated the Rue Emile Tavan to him .
Fonts
- Méthode pratique d'orchestration symphonique . 1887
Web links
- Literature by and about Émile Tavan in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Émile Tavan in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Émile Tavan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- MZ: Émile Tavan , in concentus alius
- M. Séraphin Coste: Emile Hypolite Joseph Tavan (1849-1929). Compositeur de musique (1938), at Association généalogique des Bouches-du-Rhône (AG13)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Émile Tavan , short biography, Association Philatélique du Pays d'Aix, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tavan, Émile |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tavan, Émile Hypolite Joseph; Colwery, James P. (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer and arranger |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1849 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aix-en-Provence |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 26, 1929 |
| Place of death | Gassicourt |