Jean-Marie Beaudet

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Jean-Marie Beaudet (born February 20, 1908 in Thetford Mines , † March 19, 1971 in Ottawa ) was a Canadian conductor, pianist and organist.

The brother of the pianist Pierre Beaudet had piano and organ lessons at the Collège de Lévis with Father Alphonse Tardif and then studied at the Séminaire de Québec with Henri Gagnon and Robert Talbot . In 1929 he received a “Prix d'Europe” and studied in France until 1932, first at the American Conservatory with Pierre Lucas , later at the Conservatoire de Paris with Yves Nat , Marcel Dupré and Louis Aubert .

He then taught at Laval University and became an organist at St-Dominique Church in Québec. Between 1935 and 1937 he also performed with the Société des concerts symphoniques de Montréal ( Montreal Symphony Orchestra ) as a pianist and (at the invitation of Wilfrid Pelletier ) as a conductor.

From 1937 to 1947, Beaudet was successively program director for the Québec region, program director for the French network and representative of the French network for the Pacific region at the CBC . He has conducted works such as Hector Berlioz ' L'enfance du Christ , Gabriel Fauré's Requiem , Arthur Honegger's Le Roi David and Gabriel Piernés Les Enfants à Bethléhem for the CBC radio . Under his responsibility, the CBC commissioned Healey Willan to compose the operas Transit through Fire (1942) and Deirdre of the Sorrows (1945).

For the NBC series Music of the New World , Beaudet conducted works by Lucio Agostini , Arthur Benjamin , Frank Blachford , Maurice Blackburn , Alexander Brott , Claude Champagne , Jean Coulthard , Robert Farnon , Robert Fleming , under the title “Canadian Music in Wartime” . Jean-Josaphat Gagnier , Hector Gratton , Arnold Walter , John Weinzweig , Healey Willan and others.

In 1946 he made his debut as a conductor in Europe at the Prague Spring with the Czech Philharmonic . From 1948-49 he was in charge of the CBC's international radio program Music and Musicians of Canada , in which he presented Canadian composers such as Violet Archer , Maurice Blackburn, Alexander Brott, Claude Champagne, Jean Coulthard, Roger Matton , Pierre Mercure and François to an international audience Morel , Jean Papineau-Couture , Barbara Pentland , Harry Somers and John Weinzweig.

From 1947 to 1952 taught at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec , where he directed an orchestral class, and at the École Vincent-d'Indy . His most famous students here were Jocelyne Binet , Josephe Dufresne and Elayne Julien . He has also appeared as the piano accompanist of Raoul Jobin , Marjorie Lawrence , Ezio Pinza , Georges Thill and Ninon Vallin and as a duo partner of the pianist Jeanne Landry . In 1949 he conducted a performance of Puccini's Tosca at the Montreal Festival , in the Minute Opera he performed Milhaud's Le pauvre matelot .

After studying in Paris, from 1953 to 1957, he was director of programming and production for CBC broadcasting in Toronto. During this time he conducted several important operas by international composers in radio and television programs, including Gabriel Piernés Les Enfants à Bethléhem 1954, Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème , Maurice Ravel's L'Heure espagnole , Claude Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande and Christoph Willibald Glucks Alceste 1955, Bohuslav Martinů's Comedy on the Bridge and Jules Massenet's Werther in 1956, Jean-Philippe Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie , Charles Gounod's Mireille and Georges Bizet's Carmen in 1957. With the CBC Symphony Orchestra he gave the Canadian premieres of Paul Dukas ' Symphony and Olivier Messiaen's Turangalîla Symphony .

From 1957 to 1959 Beaudet was the representative of the CBC in Paris. He then returned to Canada in various functions with the CBC until 1964 and appeared as a conductor in television programs and at the Montreal Festival. From 1964 until his death he was the musical director of the National Arts Center, whose permanent orchestra he founded. In 1971 he was posthumously awarded the Canadian Music Council Medal. In 1988 the Canada Council donated the “Jean-Marie Beaudet Award” for young conductors.

bibliography

  • Beaudet, Josée. Jean-Marie Beaudet, l'homme orchestra: récit biographique et chronologie musicale . [Anjou, Québec]: Fides, 2014. 296 pp.

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SURNAME Beaudet, Jean-Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian conductor, pianist and organist
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Thetford Mines
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1971
Place of death Ottawa