Charles-Simon Catel

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Charles-Simon Catel

Charles-Simon Catel (born June 10, 1773 in L'Aigle , today in the Orne department , † November 29, 1830 in Paris ) was a French composer .

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Charles-Simon Catel was the son of the Huguenot Pierre Frédéric Catel (1747-1791) and his wife Elisabeth Wilhelmine, née Rousset (1757-1809), born. His father was an assessor at the French court in Berlin. His brothers were the architect and painter Ludwig Friedrich Catel (1776-1819), and the painter Franz Ludwig Catel . His sister was Francoise Henriette Catel (born February 28, 1781 in Berlin, † July 18, 1781 in Berlin).

At the age of 11, Catel came to Paris on the recommendation of Antonio Sacchini , where he was accepted into the Ecole Royale de Chant et de Déclamation because of his musical talent . His teachers were François-Joseph Gossec and Louis Gobert (piano). As early as 1787 he assisted his teachers and became a musical accompanist (Accompagnist) at the Paris Opera. In 1790 he was elected 2nd conductor of the Corps de musique de la Garde nationale de Paris . In 1795 he became professor of harmony at the newly established Paris Conservatory and shortly thereafter was awarded the contract to write a textbook for this subject, which was to be used in this institution. As a result, Catel's Traité d'harmonie became one of the most widely received music theory works in France, which was reprinted and translated into various languages ​​until the 20th century. In 1810 he was appointed inspector of the conservatory. From 1814 onwards, Catel decided to only work as a freelance composer and music theorist. At the Institut de France he was from 1822 to 1823 chairman of the Commission des Fonds et de la Commission Administrative Central .

Along with his teacher Gossec, Catel is one of the initiators of the Musique des Gardiens de la Paix in Paris and at the same time an important composer of French revolutionary music (Marche, Pas Redoubles, hymns, etc.) and is one of the founders of the literature for symphonic wind orchestras in wind music research considered. Still, he was a versatile composer.

Works

Stage works

  • 1802 Sémiramis trag.lyrique 3 acts - Libretto: Philippe Desriaux after Voltaire
  • 1807 Les Artistes par occasion opéra-bouffon 1 act - Libretto: Alexandre Duval
  • 1807 L'Auberge de Bagnères opéra-bouffon 3 acts - Libretto: C. Jalabert
  • 1810 Les Bayadères (Les Bajadères) opéra 3 acts - libretto: Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy , after Voltaire
  • 1812 Les Aubergistes de qualité opéra comique 3 acts - Libretto: Victor-Joseph Etienne de Jouy
  • 1814 Bayard à Mézières opéra comique 1 act - Libretto: Alisvan de Chazet / Louis Emanuel Félicien Charles Mercier Dupaty
  • 1814 Le Premier en date opéra comique 1 act - Libretto: Marc Antoine Desaugiers / Pessey
  • 1817 Wallace ou Le Ménestrel écossais opéra héroïque 3 acts - Libretto: L. Ch. J. Fontanes de Saint-Marcellin
  • 1818 Zirphile et Fleur de Myrte ou Cent Ans en un jour opéra-féerie 2 acts - libretto: Victor-Joseph Etienne de Jouy / Nicolas Lefebvre
  • 1819 L'Officier enlevé opéra comique 1 act - Libretto: Alexandre Duval

Works for wind orchestra

Chamber music

  • Quartets for flute, oboe, cor anglais and bassoon
  • Grand quartets for flute, oboe, cor anglais and bassoon
  • Quartets for flute and strings

Books and writings

  • Charles-Simon Catel: Traité d'harmonie . Imprimerie du Conservatoire, Paris 1802. 71 p. Réédition complétée par Aimé Leborne, Brandus, Paris 1848.

literature

  • Nathalie Meidhof: Alexandre Étienne Choron's accord theory: concepts, sources, dissemination . (= Writings of the Freiburg University of Music . 4), Hildesheim, Olms 2016.
  • Nicolas Roze (1745–1819): LAS, Paris 3 mars 1817, à Charles-Simon CATEL ; 1 page in-4, address.
  • Sylvan Suskin (1936-2008): The Music of Charles Simon Catel for the Paris Opera . Music History, Yale University, 1972. iv, 351 p.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences: Berliner Klassik
  2. ↑ Meidhof 2016, p. 159.
  3. ^ François-Josepf Fétis: Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique (1837)
personal data
SURNAME Catel, Charles-Simon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Catel, Charles Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH L'Aigle (Orne) , France
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1830
Place of death Paris