Pierre Crémont

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Pierre Crémont (born June 18, 1784 in Aurillac , † March 1846 in Tours ) was a French violinist, composer , conductor and theater director.

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Pierre Crémont came from a family of musicians, his father was among other things serpent player at the chapter church Saint-Géraud in Aurillac. The young Crémont took violin lessons in Limoges from his uncle Jean Crémont, who described himself as a pupil of Giovanni Battista Viotti . According to François-Joseph Fétis , Crémont was a student of Pierre Baillot at the Paris Conservatory from around 1799 to 1803 . He then toured Germany, Poland and the Baltic countries with an acting company. Crémont settled in Saint Petersburg for several years and was employed as court musician by Tsar Alexander I. This made him head of the Théâtre Français in Moscow. After the great fire of 1812, the theater troupe was forced to leave Moscow and Crémont returned to France to go on tour to numerous Scandinavian cities.

In France he first received recognition in 1815 for the successful performance of his violin concerto in the Odeon Theater in Paris . There he was appointed vice bandmaster. During this time Crémont arranged numerous stage works by foreign composers for world premieres in Paris. For example, he adapted operas by Gioachino Rossini , Carl Maria von Weber , Giacomo Meyerbeer , Vincenzo Bellini and others.

On another trip to Northern Europe, the Royal Swedish Music Academy appointed him a member in 1830. From 1833 he was music director at the Grand Théâtre in Lyon and from 1839 until his death in 1846 he headed the Société Philharmonique in Tours .

Works (selection)

  • Violin Concerto op.1 (dedicated to his uncle Jean Crémont)
  • Clarinet Concerto op.4 ( dedicated to François Dacosta , the first clarinetist of the Paris Opera )
  • 3 “Marches funèbres”, harmony music for military orchestra
  • "Fantaisie sur l'Air Au Clair de la Lune chanté dans Les Voitures Versées" ( dedicated to François-Adrien Boieldieu )
  • 3 “Grands Duos concertants” for 2 violins, op. 10 ( dedicated to his friend François-Antoine habeneck )
  • 3 “Grands Duos concertants”, op. 12
  • 3 string trios, op.13
  • 1 string quartet 1815 (dedicated to his teacher Pierre Baillot)
  • 3 "Trios à deux violons et violoncelle", op. 15
  • 3 “Duos élémentaires à l'usage des commençants” (for beginners), op. 16
  • "Le Capitaine Belronde" Opéra comique (Paris, 1825)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ François-Joseph Fétis: Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie génèrale de la musique (1861)
  2. ↑ Explanations of a research paper on Pierre Crémont, on the website of the Institut Français du Danemark (accessed on February 17, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Crémont, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French violinist, composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH Aurillac
DATE OF DEATH March 1846
Place of death Tours