Étienne Ozi

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Étienne Ozi (born December 9, 1754 in Nîmes , † October 5, 1813 in Paris ) was a French bassoonist and composer .

Life

Etienne Ozi gained his first musical experience in a military band . In 1777 he went to Paris. After studying the bassoon with Georg Wenzel Ritter (1748–1808) he played there as a bassoonist in the orchestras La Chapelle et de la Chambre du Roy and La Chapelle de l'Empereur Napoléon . As a soloist he appeared 37 times in the Concert Spirituel between 1779 and 1790 , where he interpreted his own works 19 times.

In 1787 his Nouvelle Méthode de basson was published . It is considered to be one of the first comprehensive school works for bassoon. After the French Revolution , Ozi became a member of the Garde Nationale parisienne and lecturer at the attached music school, which in 1795 became the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris .

Works (selection)

  • Nouvelle Méthode de basson , Paris: Boyer, 1787
  • Trois sonates for bassoon and obbligato bass
  • Six duos for 2 bassoons

literature

  • Alfred Baumgartner: Propylaea World of Music - The Composers - A lexicon in five volumes . tape 4 . Propylaen Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-549-07830-7 , pp. 218 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Rohrbau by Etienne Ozi ( Memento of 14 December 2006 at the Internet Archive ), of Etienne Ozi (1754-1813): bassoonist, teacher and composer , Harold Eugene Griswold