Maurice Jeanjean

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Maurice Jeanjean (* 1897 , † 1968 ) was a French musician ( alto saxophone , clarinet ), (film) composer and arranger .

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Jeanjean came from a family of musicians; his father Paul (1874–1928) and his brother Faustin (1900–1979) were musicians and composers. At the end of the 1910s, he was arranger for performances of the operas Livret de Clairville, Chivot et Duru (1872) and La fille de Madame Angot . In 1934 he worked in Léon Kartun's orchestra in Paris , in which musicians such as Stéphane Grappelli , Gaston Lapeyronnie and Michel Warlop also played in 1934 .

He composed a. a. “20 grande études pour la clarinette”, with Faustin Jeanjean songs (e.g. “The Melody of My Heart”), chamber music works (“Guisganderie” for clarinet and piano), works for orchestra (“Balançoirs”) and for strings like “Danse de violons” and “Fiddlin 'for Fun (Les violons s'amusent)”. The best known is probably the "Quatuor pour saxophones" by the Jeanjean brothers; the composition written for the military band Quatour de la garde Republicaine (completed by Faustin Jeanjean in 1949) has established itself as an integral part of the repertoire of saxophone quartets. In part with his brother Faustin, he wrote the music for films by César Silvagni and Jacques B. Brunius ( Autour d'une évasion , 1934), Léopold Simons ( Le fraudeur , 1937) and Julien Duvivier ( The Maurizius case , 1954); He also wrote the opening and closing themes ("Générique") of the film Le Vin du bonheur , based on motifs from the chanson "Champagne" by Max Blot . The title “Bucolique”, composed with Georges Tzipine, was used in the soundtrack of the historical film Stonewall (2015).

In later years he accompanied singers like Jean Patart ("Maître Pierre", 1949) and 1956 Michel Roger ("En attendant ma belle", Olympic # 5007) with his studio orchestra .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Information on Maurice Jeanjean in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on November 7, 2017.
  2. ^ The Jeanjeans and the Clarinet
  3. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 1, 2017)
  4. ^ Maurice Jeanjean at Worldcat
  5. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series , 1959, 1771
  6. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series, 1954, p. 298
  7. ↑ Program Notes
  8. ↑ with his brother Maurice under the common pseudonym FM Jeanjean.
  9. ↑ Maurice Jeanjean in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  10. ↑ Entry on Worldcat
  11. ↑ Stonewall in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Jeanjean, Maurice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1897
DATE OF DEATH 1968