Jean-Louis Petit (born 20 August 1937) is a French
composer
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Etymology and Defi ...
,
conductor and
organist
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. He studied composition with Georges Moineau and organ with Arsène Muzerelle at the ''Conservatoire de Reims'' before he studied under
Simone Plé-Caussade
Simone-Marie Plé-Caussade (14 August 1897, Paris – 6 August 1986, Bagnères-de-Bigorre) was a French music pedagogue, composer and pianist. She wrote mainly works for solo piano and organ in addition to choral works, songs, chamber music, and ...
and
Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (, ; ; 10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist who was one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex; harmonically ...
at the ''
Conservatoire de Paris
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''. He joined courses in conducting with
Léon Barzin
Léon Eugene Barzin (November 27, 1900April 19, 1999) was a Belgian-born American conductor and founder of the National Orchestral Association (NOA), the oldest surviving training orchestra in the United States. Barzin was also the founding mu ...
at the
Schola Cantorum
The Schola Cantorum de Paris is a private conservatory in Paris. It was founded in 1894 by Charles Bordes, Alexandre Guilmant and Vincent d'Indy as a counterbalance to the Paris Conservatoire's emphasis on opera.
History
La Schola was founded i ...
,
Franco Ferrara in Venice,
Igor Markevitch in Madrid, Monaco und Santiago, Chile and
Pierre Boulez
Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez (; 26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor and writer, and the founder of several musical institutions. He was one of the dominant figures of post-war Western classical music.
Born in Mont ...
in Basel.
Petit won the Dimitris Mitropoulos Competition in New York in 1968. He founded many orchestras in France and conducted the ''Orchestre de Reims'', with which he traveled to Belgium and Germany. They have been recorded by radio stations many times. He was guest conductor to orchestras around the world, including the ''
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France'', the
Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, the
Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra The Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra (french: Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, OPMC) is the main orchestra in the Principality of Monaco. The orchestra gives concerts primarily in the Auditorium Rainier III, but also performs at the Salle ...
, the
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the
New York Philharmonic, the
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
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,
Symphony New Brunswick Symphony New Brunswick is the largest classical music organization in the province of New Brunswick. It is based in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
The orchestra was founded in 1983 following the demise of the Halifax-based Atlantic Symphony Orc ...
, the ''
Orchestre de Paris'' and the
Cairo Symphony Orchestra
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.
Petit signed with
Decca Records
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in 1964 and conducted the series Collection Grand Siècle. Soloists were
Jean-Claude Malgoire
Jean-Claude Malgoire (25 November 1940 – 14 April 2018) was a French oboist and later conductor.
Early life
Malgoire was born on 25 November 1940 in Avignon, France. His mother was born in Italy.
Malgoire graduated from the Paris Conservatory ...
,
Michel Portal
Michel Portal (born 27 November 1935) is a French composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist. He plays both jazz and classical music and is considered to be "one of the architects of modern European jazz".
Early life
Portal was born in Bayonne on ...
,
Olivier Alain and others. From 1972 to 1975 he was director of the Festival Estival de Paris. Petit founded the ''Atelier Musique'' in
Ville-d'Avray to perform
contemporary classical music
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. In 1979 he started the ''Festival de Musique Française de Ville d'Avray''. One of the guests was
Pierre Seghers
Pierre Seghers (5 January 1906, in Paris – 4 November 1987, in Créteil) was a French poet and editor. During the Second World War he took part in the French Resistance movement.
Career
He founded, among other things, the famous line of boo ...
. In 1997 his work contained more than 250 compositions.
External links
jeanlouispetit.com
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1937 births
20th-century classical composers
French classical organists
French male organists
French classical composers
French male classical composers
French male conductors (music)
Conservatoire de Paris alumni
Schola Cantorum de Paris alumni
Living people
20th-century French composers
20th-century French conductors (music)
21st-century French conductors (music)
21st-century organists
20th-century French male musicians
21st-century French male musicians
Male classical organists