Antoine Taudou

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Antoine Taudou (1903)

Antoine-Barthélémy Taudou (born August 24, 1846 in Perpignan , † July 6, 1925 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye ) was a French music teacher, violinist and composer.

biography

Antoine Taudou studied at the Paris Conservatory and won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome in 1869 with the cantata Françoise da Rimini . After the stay in Rome at the Villa Medici , which was associated with the award , he lived as a violinist in Paris. He was u. a. Member of the orchestra of the Théâtre de la Porte St-Martin and from 1872 to 1889 of the orchestra of the Concerts du Conservatoire . For several years he led the Quatour Taudou string quartet .

From 1883 he was a professor of harmony at the Paris Conservatory. Here were u. a. Louis de Serres , Charles Koechlin , Jacques de la Presle , Aymé Kunc , Joseph Boulnois , Joseph-Ermend Bonnal and Francisco Braga among his students.

Taudou composed incidental music for the piece Le Luthier de Crémone by François Coppée , which was performed in 1876 at the Comédie-Française . He has also composed a trio for flute, viola and cello, a trio for piano and strings, a string quartet, a violin concerto and several orchestral pieces. For his services, he was awarded the Legion of Honor in 1903 .

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