Hippolyte Colet
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
- ^ Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 113.
- ↑ Colet's biography (French)
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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 |