Théodore Mozin
Désiré Théodore Mozin (born January 25, 1818 in Paris , † November 16, 1850 ibid) was a French composer and music teacher.
Life
Théodore Mozin received music lessons as a child from his father Benoit Mozin (1769-1857), who was a student of François-Joseph Gossec , had composed some piano works himself and had taught piano at the Paris Conservatory since its founding in 1795 .
Mozin completed his training at the Conservatoire, where he studied counterpoint with Fromental Halévy , composition with Ferdinando Paër and Jean-François Lesueur , harmony with Victor Dourlen and piano with Pierre Zimmermann . After attending the composition classes of Halévy and Henri Montan Berton , he competed for the Prix de Rome in 1841 and won the Second Grand Prix with the setting of the poem Lionel Foscari by Amédée-David marquis de Pastoret .
Mozin has been teaching piano at the conservatory since 1837. In 1848 he was appointed professor of solfège by its director Luigi Cherubini . Two years later he died at the age of 32 and was buried in the Paris North Cemetery, the Cimetière de Montmartre . As a composer he emerged with a number of piano works.
Mozin's brother was the landscape painter Charles Mozin , whose grandson Charles Théodore Malherbe was in turn known as a composer.
Works (selection)
- Variations brillantes sur un thème original Op. 2
- Premier Prelude Op. 10
- Six Fantaisies on "La Sirène" Op. 11
- La plainte du pâtre. Fantaisie brillante pour piano sur une mélodie Pang Morel Op. 14th
- Valses élégantes et brilliant Op. 15th
- Etudes spéciales Op. 16
- Etudes de salon Op. 17th
- Souvenir de Trouville , Quadrille original varié for piano four hands, published by E. Mayaud (Paris 1850) Op. 22nd
- 12 Etudes spéciales pour petites mains (for small hands) Op. 23
- Alma, polka brilliant Op. 25th
- Le sourire , Grande valse élégante Op. 26th
- L'ange du réveil . Text by Émile Vanderburch
- Contredanses suivies d'une valse pour le piano forte
- Le dernier vœu , romance. on a text by Auguste Humbert (1843)
- Polka-mazurka Op. 54 (1851)
Individual evidence
- ↑ La généalogie de la famille Mozin, établie par François Piet, on GeneaNet (after registration)
- ^ Website Musica et Memoria; Prix de Rome
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Mozin, Théodore |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mozin, Désiré Théodore (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer and music teacher |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1818 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
DATE OF DEATH | November 16, 1850 |
Place of death | Paris |