1825
Events
January–March
* January 4 – King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies dies in Naples and is succeeded by his son, Francis.
* February 3 – Vendsyssel-Thy, once part of the Jutland peninsula forming westernmost Denmark, becomes a ...
) was a French
oboist
An oboist (formerly hautboist) is a musician who plays the oboe or any oboe family instrument, including the oboe d'amore, cor anglais or English horn, bass oboe and piccolo oboe or oboe musette.
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and
composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music.
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.
Life
Joseph-François Garnier was born in 1755 in
Lauris
Lauris (; oc, Là urias) is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.
It is located between the Luberon and the Durance river. The town has seen a rapid increase in population in since ...
,
Vaucluse
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Revolution
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), playing oboe and
flute
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. Over the course of his long career with this orchestra, from 1775 to 1808, Garnier earned a grand reputation also for performing at the
Concert Spirituel
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public concert series from 1787 to 1791 as solo oboist, occasionally in performances of his own compositions.
From 1792, he taught oboe at the
National Guard
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Nat ...
where he became friends with the violinist
Rodolphe Kreutzer
Rodolphe Kreutzer (15 November 1766 – 6 January 1831) was a French violinist, teacher, conductor, and composer of forty French operas, including ''La mort d'Abel'' (1810).
He is probably best known as the dedicatee of Beethoven's Violin Sona ...
, who dedicated his
oboe concerto
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Gluck
Christoph Willibald (Ritter von) Gluck (; 2 July 1714 – 15 November 1787) was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period (music), classical period. Born in the Upper Palatinate and raised in Bohemia, both part of the ...
, Cherubini and Gossec, each under the composer's own direction. He also participated in the French-language premieres of many of
Mozart
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Don Juan
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Pleyel
Ignace Joseph Pleyel (; ; 18 June 1757 – 14 November 1831) was an Austrian-born French composer, music publisher and piano builder of the Classical period.
Life Early years
He was born in in Lower Austria, the son of a schoolmaster named Ma ...
. It is reported that he was also a member of various Masonic lodges.
Music critic Jacques Rouchouse wrote a biography of Garnier in 2003. Oboist Claude Villevieille is largely responsible for the reintroduction of Garnier's concert works into the public awareness. Villevieille has said that Garnier may be considered "the first French theorist of the instrument".
His son, also named Joseph François (1796-1865), was a medical doctor and mayor of Neuilly (1843-1848).
Garnier died in
Paris
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on 31 March 1825. His place of burial is unknown. His home town of Lauris named its school of music in his honour on 25 April 2010.
Compositions
* Symphonies concertante for two oboes.
* Concerto for oboe and orchestra.
* Sonatas, duo concertos and duets for two oboes, for oboe and clarinet, for oboe and bassoon and for oboe and violin.
, ''Biographie universelle des musiciens'', t. 3-4, Paris, Firmin-Didot,
Notes
See also
Oboist
An oboist (formerly hautboist) is a musician who plays the oboe or any oboe family instrument, including the oboe d'amore, cor anglais or English horn, bass oboe and piccolo oboe or oboe musette.
The following is a list of notable past and pres ...