Joseph Calvet
Joseph Calvet (born October 8, 1897 in Valence , Tarn-et-Garonne department , † May 3, 1984 in Paris ) was a French violinist .
Calvet studied violin at the Conservatory of Toulouse until 1904 and then at the Conservatoire de Paris . He was a pupil of Ysaÿe -Schülers Guillaume Rémy and founded after his graduation in 1919, a separate string quartet with Georges Mignot (1929 by Daniel Guilevitch replaced), Léon Pascal and Paul Mas , which he led until the outbreak of war 1940th In 1928 the ensemble played a complete performance of Beethoven's string quartets in Paris at the invitation of Nadia Boulanger . The quartet has also made recordings of string quartets by contemporary French composers, especially Claude Debussys and Maurice Ravel . After the Second World War, Calvet founded a new string quartet under the name Quatuor Calvet with Jean Champeil , Maurice Husson and Manuel Recasens , which existed until 1950.
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- Encyclopaedia universalis - Calvet, Joseph
- Oxford Index - Calvet Quartet
- Arbie Orenstein: "A Ravel Reader: Correspondence, Articles, Interviews" , Courier Dover Publications, 2003, ISBN 9780486430782 , p. 550
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| SURNAME | Calvet, Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French violinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Valence , Tarn-et-Garonne department |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 3, 1984 |
| Place of death | Paris |