Lucien Cailliet
Lucien Cailliet (born May 22, 1891 in Dijon , † January 3, 1985 in Los Angeles ) was a French-born American composer and clarinetist.
Life
Cailliet studied at the Conservatory in Dijon, where he graduated with honors in clarinet. He then studied composition with Paul Fauchet and Georges Caussade and studied counterpoint with André Gedalge and instrumentation with Gabriel Pares .
In 1918 he moved to the USA, where he worked as clarinetist and arranger with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski and Eugene Ormandy until 1937. He also founded the Cherry Hill Wind Symphony (later the Wind Symphony of Southern New Jersey ), for which he arranged Sibelius ' Finlandia , among others . He was also a professor at the University of Southern California and conductor of the local symphony orchestra.
In 1937 Cailliet published an orchestral arrangement of Mussorgski's Pictures at an Exhibition . In addition to more than two hundred works for wind ensemble, orchestra and choir, he also composed and orchestrated fifty film scores, including for the films Geknechtet ( The Vanquished ), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon , The Ten Commandments and Gunfight at the OK Corral .
1937 Cailliet was officier of the Académie française , 1940 doctor of music at the Philadelphia Musical Academy .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cailliet, Lucien |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American composer and clarinetist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dijon |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd January 1985 |
| Place of death | los Angeles |