Théodore Mozin

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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

  1. ↑ La généalogie de la famille Mozin, établie par François Piet, on GeneaNet (after registration)
  2. ^ Website Musica et Memoria; Prix ​​de Rome
personal data
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