Georges Gillet

Georges Gillet

Georges-Vital-Victor Gillet (born May 17, 1854 in Louviers , † February 8, 1920 in Bessoncourt ) was a French oboist, music teacher and composer.

Gillet studied from 1866 at the Conservatoire de Paris, first with Félix Berthélémy , after his death with Charles Colin , a student of Gustave Vogt , and in 1869 won first prize in the oboe subject. He was a member of the Orchester des Théâtre-Italien from 1872 to 1874 and played at the Concerts Colonne from 1872 to 1876 . From 1876 to 1899 he was a member of the Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire and from 1878 a member of the orchestra of the Opéra-Comique , whose solo oboist he became in 1895.

Since it was founded in 1879, he was a member of Paul Taffanel's Societe de Musique de Chambre pour Instruments a 'Vent , with which he gave regular concerts until the mid-1890s. a. original wind compositions by Handel , Mozart and Beethoven and works by contemporary composers such as Antonín Dvořák (1880) and Richard Strauss were performed. Benjamin Godard dedicated his Scenes Ecossaises to Gillet . In 1887 he went on a concert tour through Russia with Taffanal and Camille Saint-Saëns .

With the orchestra of the Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire under the direction of Edouard Deldevez , Jules Garcin and Paul Taffanel , Gillet played the classical symphonic repertoire, as well as works such as Liszt's Les Preludes , the overture to Wagner's Tristan and Isolde and performed with soloists such as Joseph Joachim , Eugène Ysaÿe and Pablo de Sarasate . He has played Handel's oboe concerto in G minor and Marie Félicie Clémence's oboe concerto several times.

In 1881, Gillet became the youngest professor of oboe in the history of the Conservatoire and taught here until 1918.

Gillet students such as Georges Longy (Boston Symphony Orchestra), Alfred Barthel (Chicago Symphony Orchestra), Pierre Mathieu (New York Symphony Orchestra), Marcel Tabuteau (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, later Philadelphia Orchentra and Cuitis Institute) had a lasting effect in the USA .