Jacques Canetti

Jacques Canetti (1960)

Jacques Canetti (actually: Nissim Jacques Canetti ; born May 30, 1909 in Russe , Bulgaria ; † June 7, 1997 in Suresnes , France ) was a French music producer and theater director and was one of the most important figures in French music of the 1950s and 1960s .

His older brother is the Nobel laureate in literature, Elias Canetti , and his younger brother is the physician Georges Canetti .

Life

Born in Bulgaria to a Sephardic-Jewish family, Jacques Canetti grew up in Vienna , Manchester . Zurich , Lausanne , Frankfurt am Main and Munich . In 1926 he moved to Paris with his mother and younger brother - the father had died in 1912 . There he studied at the HEC before he accepted a job at the Polydor record company in 1932 . The newspaper advertisement to which he applied later formed the title of his autobiography : "Looking for a young man who loves music and speaks German ..."

Canetti, a great friend of jazz , organized tours for the magazine Hot Jazz , on which he brought stars like Louis Armstrong , Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway to France for the first time . In the second half of the 1930s he became artistic director of the radio station Radio Cité , where he established numerous successful broadcast formats and presented the debuts of Édith Piaf and Charles Trenet , among others . Canetti had been a French citizen since 1932, and from 1940 onwards he officially only bore the name "Jacques Canetti".

In 1942 Canetti went into exile in North Africa and founded the Théâtre des Trois Anes in Algiers . After the end of the Second World War , he returned to Paris and founded the Théâtre des Trois Baudets , in which a large number of rising stars of French chanson performed between 1947 and 1962 , such as Serge Gainsbourg , Boris Vian , Georges Brassens , Jacques Brel , Henri Salvador , Pierre Dac , Raymond Devos , Robert Lamoureux and Jean Yanne . Canetti was also artistic director at Polydor and later Philips , where he recorded recordings by Georges Brassens, Jacques Brel, Guy Béart , Félix Leclerc , Francis Lemarque , Serge Gainsbourg, Henri Salvador, Boris Vian, Raymond Devos, Fernand Raynaud , Anne Sylvestre , Pierre Dac, Francis Blanche , Juliette Gréco , Catherine Sauvage and Claude Nougaro produced.

In 1963 Canetti left Philips and founded the record company Les Productions Jacques Canetti , where he brought out the first albums by successful artists such as Jeanne Moreau , Serge Reggiani , Jacques Higelin , Brigitte Fontaine , Simone Signoret , Pierre Brasseur and Michel Simon . Since his death in 1997, the company has been run by his children. Canetti was buried at the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in Paris.

literature

• Jacques Canetti: On cherche jeune homme aimant la musique . Calmann-Lévy, Paris 1978, ISBN 2-7021-0253-0 .

Web links

• Productions Jacques Canetti with biography (French).
• Died: Jacques Canetti . In: Der Spiegel . No. 25 , 1997, pp. 218 ( online ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Jacques Canetti ( Memento of the original dated May 31, 2020 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of nrj.fr .
2. ↑ ^{a b} Les frères Canetti. ( Memento of December 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on the Institut Pasteur website .
3. ↑ Died: Jacques Canetti . In: Der Spiegel . No. 25 , 1997, pp. 218 ( online ).
4. ^ Veza and Elias Canetti: Letters to Georges . Hanser, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-446-20760-0 , p. 376.
5. ↑ Biography ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Productions Jacques Canetti .