Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht
Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht (born September 17, 1880 in Paris , † February 14, 1965 ibid) was a French conductor and composer.
Live and act
Inghelbrecht came from a family of musicians. His father played the viola in the Paris Opera Orchestra , and his mother played the violin and piano. Inghelbrecht took violin lessons at an early age and took courses in solfège and harmony with Antoine Taudou at the Paris Conservatory .
He then worked as a violinist in an orchestra, where he learned to conduct himself, and made his debut in 1908 as a conductor at the Théâtre des Arts . He became friends with Claude Debussy , who commissioned him in 1911 to rehearse the choir for the performance of Le martyr de St. Sébastien .
In 1913 he became conductor at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées , where he directed the French-language premiere of Modest Mussorgski's opera Boris Godunow . He remained connected to the theater for a long time as a conductor: he directed the Ballets Suédois from 1920 to 1923 , then the orchestra of the Opéra-Comique until 1925 and 1932–1933, the orchestra of the Algiers Opera from 1929–1930 and the orchestra from 1945 to 1950 the Paris Opera.
From 1928 to 1932 he directed the Concerts Pasdeloup . In 1934 he founded the Orchester National de France , which he directed until 1944 and then again from 1951 to 1958, making it the most important radio orchestra in France.
Inghelbrecht made numerous recordings, many of them with works by Debussy and other French composers such as Georges Bizet and Gabriel Fauré . In addition to operas and ballets, Inghelbrecht also composed orchestral works, chamber music, choral and piano works as well as music for films and radio plays.
Stage works
- La Nuit Vénitienne (after Alfred de Musset ), musical comedy, premiered in 1908
- El Greco, évocations symphoniques , ballet, WP 1920
- Le Diable dans le beffroi (after Edgar Allan Poe ), ballet, premiered in 1929
- La Métamorphose d'Eve , ballet, 1929
- Mowgli (after Rudyard Kipling ) for voice, choir and orchestra, 1946
- Voyage dans le Bleu , Operetta, 1947
- Le Chéne et le tilleul (libretto by Germaine Inghelbrecht after Jean de La Fontaine ), ballet opera, 1960
Web links
- Sheet music and audio files by Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht in the International Music Score Library Project
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Inghelbrecht, Désiré-Émile |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th September 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 14, 1965 |
| Place of death | Paris |