Jean Périsson (6 July 1924 in

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– 18 February 2019) was a French conductor.

Career

A pupil of

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, he won the first prize at the

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conducting competition in 1952. He was assistant to

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at the

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, and was chief conductor of the Strasbourg Radio Orchestra from 1955-56. He was music director for the city of Nice from 1956-65, giving Wagner cycles (with artists from

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). He was a permanent conductor at the

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from 1965-69 and led an early French production of ''

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'' at the

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. He conducted in San Francisco, Ankara and Beijing.Il nous ont quittés : Jean Périsson. '' Diapason'', No. 678, Avril 2019, p15. The 1952 winner of International Besançon Competition for Young Conductors, he was invited by the People’s Republic of China to hold a one-month position with China National Symphony (formerly Central Philharmonic Society) in May 1980. He later conducted and recorded Bizet’s ''Carmen'' with Central Opera Theatre of China in 1982.

Publications

* ''Une Vie de héraut : Un chef d'orchestre dans le siècle'', Paris, Éditions

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July 2014, 318 p. Mémoires. * ''Jacques Offenbach - Les Contes d'Hoffmann''. Commentaire littéraire et musical. Ed. L'Avant-scène Opéra N°25 (January/February 1980)

Sources

* * José Beckmans: ''Prisonnier de son art - mémoires'' - (1989). Ed. Librairie Séguier *

Jacques Lonchampt Jacques Lonchampt (10 August 1925 in Lyon – 27 December 2014 in Paris)

: ''Regards sur l'opéra de Verdi à Georges Aperghis'' Ed.

2003

References

External links

Discography
on

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Perisson on the Who's who

Régine Crespin (Cassandre), Les Troyens Berlioz San Francisco1966, dir Jean Périsson
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