Louis Auriacombe

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Louis Auriacombe, 1961

Louis Auriacombe (born February 22, 1917 in Pau , † December 3, 1982 in Toulouse ) was a French conductor.

Life

Auriacombe studied singing and violin at the Conservatory of Toulouse from 1930 to 1939 and then became a violinist with the Orchester radio-symphonique de Toulouse . From 1951 he studied orchestral conducting with Igor Markevitch , whose assistant he was from 1957 to 1968.

In 1953 he founded the Orchester de chambre de Toulouse , a thirty-piece string orchestra with which he performed and recorded mainly works from the Baroque period ( Antonio Vivaldi , Georg Friedrich Handel , Tommaso Albinoni and others).

He also directed student orchestras at the Conservatoire de Paris and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. In 1970 he conducted the American premiere of György Ligeti's Ramifications . Several works by Maurice Ohana were premiered under his direction . In 1971, Auriacombe withdrew from his professional life seriously ill.

literature

  • Auriacombe, Louis. In: John L. Holmes: Conductors on Record. Greenwood Press, Westport 1982, ISBN 0-575-02781-9 , p. 27.

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