Michel-Joseph Gebauer

Michel-Joseph Gebauer (* 1765 in La Fère , Département Aisne , † December 1812 ) was a French composer and Hautboist .

Live and act

Michel-Joseph Gebauer was the son of Christian Gebauer from Germany, who worked as a horn player in the marching band of the Swiss Guard in Versailles . He was the eldest of the four brothers François René Gebauer (1773–1845), Pierre-Paul Gebauer and Etienne-François Gebauer , who all made music and composed.

He received his first music and instrumental lessons from his father. At the age of 14, he joined the marching band of the Guardians , in which his father had also served, as a Hautboist. Gebauer was violist in the Royal Chapel from 1788 to 1792, but had to give up this position due to a finger injury. In 1791 he took a position as Hautboist in the orchestra of the Musique de la garde nationale de Paris ; He also played in the Théâtre Français and probably in the Théâtre Louvois Orchestra . From 1795 to 1800 he was a professor at the Conservatoire de Paris , but his position was then canceled for economic reasons. He then became music master of the guard of the 1st Consul and later the Imperial Guard . He knew how to combine the German taste introduced in France by Jean-Paul-Égide Martini with the French, as embodied by François-Joseph Gossec and Charles-Simon Catel . His more than 200 military marches were highly valued. As a member of Napoleon's private chamber orchestra , he took part in several campaigns between 1805 and 1812; from the German campaigns he brought improved wind instruments from German workshops to France. Gebauer died in 1812 while retreating from the Russian campaign .

Works (selection)

Works for wind orchestra

• Pas de maneuver
• Marche militaire

Chamber music

• Grande étude opus 9, for flute solo
• Douze Duos à l'usage des Commençants pour deux violons ... opus 10
• Trois Duos opus 17, for flute and bassoon
• Petite pièce for treble recorder
• Polonaise for flute and guitar
• 12 Länders for 2 flutes (or: flute and violin)
• Six duos for two clarinets

Stage works

• 1790: Aimée ou La Fausse apparence , Opéra-comique

literature

• Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in the past and present. Person part . 2nd Edition. tape 7 . Bärenreiter, Kassel et al. 2005, ISBN 3-7618-1100-4 , Sp. 668 .
• David Charlton, Hervé Audéon: Gebauer (i) . In: Stanley Sadie (Ed.): The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians . MacMillan Publishers Limited, London 2001, ISBN 1-56159-239-0 , pp. 615 f .
• Wolfgang Suppan , Armin Suppan : The brass music lexicon . 5th edition. HeBu-Musikverlag, Kraichtal 2010, ISBN 978-3-9806925-9-5 , p. 281 .

Web links

• Sheet music and audio files by Michel-Joseph Gebauer in the International Music Score Library Project