Jean Bobescu

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Jean Bobescu (also Jean Bobesco ; born April 5, 1890 in Iași , Romania ; † August 5, 1981 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian violinist , conductor and music teacher .

Live and act

Jean Bobescu was a son of the singer, actor and variety director Aron Leon Boba (1856–1915), who was a farmer's son from Rădeşti near Aiud and later took the name Bobescu, and his wife Adolphine nee. Alexandrescu. The actor and director Emil Bobescu (1882–1961), the composer and conductor Aurel Bobescu (1885–1982), the actress Eleonora Bobescu (* 1887) and the violinist, composer and conductor Constantin Bobescu (1899–1992) were his siblings. The violinist Lola Bobesco (1921–2003) was the daughter of Aurel Bobescu.

From 1907 to 1911 Jean Bobescu studied music theory and solfège with Sofia Teodoreanu, violin with Teodor Teodorini and harmony and composition with Alexandru Zirra at the Iași Conservatory . In Paris he took private violin lessons from George Enescu . In 1911 he became professor for violin at the Școala de artă “Cornetti” in Craiova on the recommendation of Eduard Caudella . In 1912 he founded the string quartet Bobescu de Angelis in Craiova with Camillo de Angelis, his brother Aurel Bobescu and Ida Capatti , to which he belonged until 1916. In 1916 he conducted the orchestra of the opera company Theodor Guritză - Nicolae Corfescu in Bucharest with the opera The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini . From 1916 to 1917 he was head of the chapel of the 13th Infantry Regiment of Iași during the First World War . From 1917 to 1920 he was the conductor of the symphony orchestra and director of the Craiova Conservatory. He then became chief conductor of the orchestra of the Opera Națională Română Cluj of Cluj-Napoca . From 1940 to 1965 he was conductor at the Opera Națională Bucureşti in Bucharest. From 1950 he was also professor of the opera class at the Bucharest Conservatory; In 1961 he retired .

His repertoire as a conductor included the operas Eugene Onegin and Pique Dame by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , Russalka by Alexander Sergejewitsch Dargomyshsky , Faust by Charles Gounod , Tosca by Giacomo Puccini , Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavalloagn , Aida by Giuseppe Verdi and Cavroalleria rustic by Pietro Masci .


Awards

  • 1955 Maestru Emerit al Artei (Honored Master of Art)
  • 1964: Artist al Poporului (People's Artist)
  • 1970: Class I of the Ordinul Muncii (Order of Labor)

Fonts

  • La pupitrul operei. Amintiri. (At the opera desk. Memories). Muzicalǎ, Bucharest 1964, OCLC 164775514 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "O poveste adevãratã" - Intamplãri din viata muzicianului Constantin Bobescu (partea I a) on observatorul.com (Romanian)
  2. ↑ Constantin Bobescu și amintirile sale despre Basarabia on europalibera.org (Romanian)
personal data
SURNAME Bobescu, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bobesco, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian violinist, conductor and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Iași , Romania
DATE OF DEATH 5th August 1981
Place of death Bucharest , Romania