Jean-Claude Hartemann (18 December 1929 – 27 November 1993) was a 20th-century French conductor.
Biography
Born in
Vezet
Vezet () is a former Communes of France, commune in the Haute-Saône Departments of France, department in the Regions of France, region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune La Romaine ...
(Haute-Saône), a student of
Jean Fournet
Jean Fournet (14 April 1913 – 3 November 2008) was a French flautist and conductor.
Fournet was born in Rouen in 1913. His father was a flutist who gave him some instruction on the flute and music theory. Fournet was then trained at the Con ...
at the
École Normale de Musique de Paris, Hartemann took part to the 1956 Besançon International Competition. From 1957 to 1960, he was first conductor of the
Grand Théâtre lyrique de Dijon, where he met
Jésus Etcheverry
Jésus Etchéverry (14 November 1911 in Bordeaux – 12 January 1988 in Paris) was a French operatic conductor (music), conductor.
He began studying the violin while still very young, and played with diverse small orchestras to pay for his tuition ...
, with whom he perfected his training. From 1960 to 1963, he was musical director of the
Théâtre de Metz, then permanent head of the . Regularly invited to the
Opéra-Comique
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, he was its
musical director
A music(al) director or director of music is the person responsible for the musical aspects of a performance, production, or organization. This would include the artistic director and usually chief conductor of an orchestra or concert band, the ...
from 1968 to 1972. He founded several
ensembles, including the Ensemble instrumental de France
Ensemble instrumental de France
on Discogs in 1966, the Solistes de France in 1971, and the in 1988. A talented Mozartian, he recorded several French operetta
Operetta is a form of theatre and a genre of light opera. It includes spoken dialogue, songs, and dances. It is lighter than opera in terms of its music, orchestral size, length of the work, and at face value, subject matter. Apart from its s ...
s, Gounod's '' St. Cecilia Mass'', and created works by Franck Martin. From 1972 to 1977 he taught at the Schola Cantorum de Paris, then at the Centre culturel d'Évry. In a context of crisis in orchestral conducting in France, he is one of the very few conductors to have passed on his profession, whose lyrical repertoire was for him the essential basis.
Jean-Claude Hartemann died in Paris in 1993 at age 63.
References
External links
* (discography)
Jean-Claude Hartemann
on Discogs
Jean-Claude Hartemann
on Larousse "Dictionnaire de la musique".
''La chanson de Fortunio''
directed by Jean-Claude Hartemann on 23 February 1964 (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel
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Since 200 ...
)
Gounod - ''St. Cecilia Mass'' (recording of the Century: Jean-Claude Hartemann)
on YouTube
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People from Haute-Saône
1929 births
1993 deaths
French male conductors (music)
20th-century French conductors (music)
20th-century French male musicians