Louis Canivez

Louis Canivez

Louis Canivez (born April 24, 1837 in Binche , † November 18, 1911 in Ittre ) was a Belgian composer and conductor .

Life

Louis Canivez received his first music lessons at the age of 9 and became a choirboy in his hometown colleague. In the episcopal high school St. Augustine he learned to play the flap horn and became a member of the fanfare orchestra in this high school, in which another composer and military bandmaster , Jules Painparé , also made music. He was also a member of the Les Amis d'Orphée choir , where he later became a conductor and conducted his first concert at the age of 13 in the theater in Bergen . A little later he founded a choir in Villers-Saint-Ghislain , trained all singers on wind instruments and this then became a fanfare orchestra, which he conducted until 1870. He himself now played the flugelhorn in the fanfare orchestra in Binche under the direction of Fréderic Saupe , who in turn was former conductor of the Belgian Grenadiers Music Corps. With this Fréderic Saupe he studied harmony until 1856 and the first compositions were written.

At the beginning of October 1856 Canivez became a teacher at the school of the Manufacture de Glaces mirror factory in Sainte-Marie-d'Oignies . He instructed the workers there in sheet music and gave lessons for brass instruments. He himself played as a euphonium soloist in the company's wind orchestra, which was conducted by Jean-Valentin Bender , the conductor of the Groot Harmonieorkest van de Belgische Gidsen . In 1857 he was drafted into the military and made music in the music corps of the 9th Line Regiment as a flugelhorn player .

During the 7 months as a military musician, he composed various marches for the music corps, which were quickly played by other music corps. Jean-Valentin Bender even asked him to arrange the Ouverture du Prétendant by Friedrich Wilhelm Kücken for wind orchestra.

In 1858 he conducted the Société des Chœurs from Tamines , Belgium , and in 1860 he became the conductor of La Marche de Saint Aloi in Châtelet , Belgium. In 1875 he moved to Charleroi and opened a musical instrument retailer. The number of wind and fanfare orchestras he conducted quickly increased. He had a total of 38 orchestras between 1858 and 1900. With the orchestras he received numerous prizes and awards at national and international competitions. Its educational quality is also reflected in the schools for wind instruments, but especially in the Ecole de Fanfare . In 1882 he was chairman of the jury at the Grand Concours International in Geneva .

His extensive oeuvre for wind orchestra includes 22 pas red doubles, 13 marches, numerous funeral and procession marches, 5 Air Variés for various wind instruments, waltzes, polkas and mazurkas.

Works

Works for wind orchestra

• Andante Religioso
• Bona Fortuna Ouverture, opus 224
• Fantaisie Variée sur des airs Styriens
• Fantaisie Variée
• Fantaisie Pastorale
• Fete au Bois Overture
• Foil fantasy
• impromptu
• Invocation
• La Printanière Fantasy
• La Thudinienne
• Le Glorieuse's Overture
• Louise Overture
• Réveil fantasy
• Sous les Tilleuls overture
• Souvenir des Alpes
• Un Caprice Fantasy
• Une Fête sur la Néva Overture
• l'Union fait la Force Overture

Web links

• On a retrouvé Louis Canivez !, short portrait with photo. La Ga (ni) zette, Canivet family website, accessed August 31, 2013 (French).