Hippolyte Colet

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Hippolyte Colet, lithograph by Marie-Alexandre Alophe

Hippolyte Raymond Colet (born December 5, 1808 in Uzès , † April 21, 1853 in Paris ) was a French composer , music teacher and theorist .

Colet studied at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1828 harmony and counterpoint with Antonín Reicha and from 1831 composition with Henri Montan Berton . In 1834 he won the first Second Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata L'Entrée en loge based on a text by Jean-François Gail . On December 5, 1834, he married the aspiring poet Louise Colet in Mouriès .

As Reicha's representative and repetitor in his class at the Conservatoire, Colet also taught the young César Franck at the end of the 1830s . In 1840 he became a professor of harmony, allegedly mainly because of his beautiful wife's circle of friends. His students included u. a. Joseph Crèvecoeur , Charles Lebouc , Adolphe Nibelle , Alfred Deléhelle , Gustave Lefèvre and Henryk Wieniawski .

In 1837 Colet published his controversially received work La Panharmonie , in which he adopted a romantic view of Berlioz's music against traditionalists such as Cherubini and Fétis . Further works on music theory and education appeared with financial support from Pierre-Marie Gaugiran , a retired officer of the Royal Guard.

Works

  • L'Abencérage , Opera in Two Acts, 1837
  • L'Ingénue , comic opera in one act, 1841
  • Le Marabout de Sidi-Brahim , comic opera in one act, 1845
  • La Messe de Minuit , string quartet
  • Le Jour des Morts , piano quintet
  • Piano accompaniment to Chants et chansons populaires de la France by Théophile Marion Dumersan

Fonts

  • La Panharmonie musicale, ou cours complet de composition théorique et pratique. Harmonie, mélodie, contre-points, figures, musique ancienne et moderne, instrumentation, orchestration, avec un nouveau système de clefs réduites à une seule clef de sol et une nouvelle manière de chiffrer plus simple, plus logique, à l'usage deses , des amateurs, des écoles de chant, des pensions et des collèges , 1837
  • Cours complet d'harmonie et de composition , 1837
  • Partimenti, ou Traité spécial, dédié aux pianistes
  • Les Harmonies du Conservatoire, ouvrage qu'on peut appeler le contrepointiste modern
  • Conseils à mes élèves ou traité élémentaire d'harmonie servant d'introduction à la panharmonie musicale , 1847

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 113.
  2. ↑ Colet's biography (French)
personal data
SURNAME Colet, Hippolyte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Colet, Hippolyte Raymond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French composer, music teacher and theorist
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Uzes
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1853
Place of death Paris