French conductor and composer
Jean Francisque-Etienne Martinon
(also known as
Jean Martinon
(
French pronunciation:
[???
ma?tin??]
); 10 January 1910 – 1 March 1976)
[1]
was a French
conductor
and
composer
.
Biography
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Martinon was born in
Lyon
, where he began his education, going on to the
Conservatoire de Paris
to study under
Albert Roussel
for composition, under
Charles Munch
and
Roger Desormiere
for conducting, under
Vincent d'Indy
for harmony, and under
Jules Boucherit
for violin. He served in the French army during
World War II
, and was taken prisoner in 1940, composing works such as
Chant des captifs
while incarcerated. Among his other compositions are four symphonies, four concertos, additional choral works and chamber music.
[2]
After the war, Martinon was appointed conductor of the
Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire
of Paris, and, in 1946, of the
Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine
.
On Martinon's first visit to Dublin in March 1946, his interpretation of Debussy's
La Mer
(the Irish premiere of the work) was described as ‘a musical event of real importance’.
[3]
The success of that first concert led Radio Eireann (the Irish public broadcasting service) to engage him in the following year to assist in the selection of musicians and the general organisation of the newly constituted
Radio Eireann Symphony Orchestra
. While in Dublin Martinon encouraged the development of Our Lady's Choral Society, he conducted that choir in several important events with the radio orchestra, and he gave master classes in orchestral conducting and in composition in the Summer School of Music.
[4]
Other orchestras with which he was associated were the
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
as music director from 1963 to 1968; the
Dusseldorfer Symphoniker
, the
French National Orchestra
, the
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
, the
London Philharmonic Orchestra
, the
Concerts Lamoureux
and
Het Residentie Orkest
in
The Hague
.
Martinon's repertoire focused on the works of early twentieth-century French and
Russian
composers. The premieres of his violin and cello concertos were given by
Henryk Szeryng
and
Pierre Fournier
respectively.
He was a National Patron of
Delta Omicron
, an international professional music fraternity.
[5]
Martinon was diagnosed with bone cancer not long after he guest-conducted the
San Francisco Symphony
in its first complete performances of
Deryck Cooke
's completion of
Gustav Mahler
's
tenth symphony
.
[6]
He died in
Paris
.
Compositions
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- Published Scores | 1935-1974
- Apres ma journee faite Op.26, (1940)
- Ballade du soldat incassable Op.40 No.2, (1945)
- Concerto (No.1) "giocoso" pour violon et orchestre Op.18, (1937)
- Concerto "lyrique" pour un quatuor a cordes solo et un orchestre de 36 musiciens, Op.38, (1962)
- Concerto pour flute et orchestre, (1971)
- Concerto pour quatuor de saxophones Op.38b, (1974)
- Concerto pour violoncelle et orchestre, Op.52, (1967)
- Concerto No.2 pour violon et orchestre, Op.51, (1963)
- Divertissement pour orchestre -reduit-, (1942)
- Domenon, ou, Musique pour quintette a vent, (1970)
- Duo -musique en forme de sonate- pour violon et piano Op.47, (1959)
- Epilogue d'un conte d'amour -berceuse- pour piano, Op.35 No.1, (1947)
- Les horizons perdus pour chant et piano, (1946)
- Humanite (Les Soirs) pour chant et piano Op.12, (1940)
- Hymne, variations et rondo Op.56, (1961/1968)
- Introduction et toccata Op.45, (1947)
- Mon plus joli reve, (1946?)
- Musique d'exil, Op.31, (1941)
- Ouverture pour tragedie grecque Op.47, (1951)
- Paysage anterieur pour chant et piano, Op.25 No.1, (1940)
- Psaume CXXXVI (Chant des captifs), Op.33, (1946)
- Psaume 136 (Chant des captifs) pour chant et piano avec choeurs, Op.33, (1946)
- Quatuor a cordes No.1 Op.43, (1946)
- Quatuor a cordes No.2 Op.54, (1966)
- Rapsodie 72 pour alto et piano, (1972)
- Sonatine No.1 pour violin et piano Op.19 No.1, (1935)
- Sonatine (No.1) vers. pour clarinette et piano Op.19 No.1b, (1935/1968)
- Sonatine No.2 pour violin et piano Op.19 No.2, (1936)
- Sonatine (No.2) vers. pour flute et piano Op.19 No.2b, (1936/1968)
- Sonatine No.3 pour piano, Op.22, (1946?)
- Sonatine No.4 pour trio d'anches Op.26 No.1, (1940)
- Sonatine No.5 pour violon solo, Op.32 No.1, (1942)
- Sonatine No.6 pour violon solo, Op.49 No.2, (1960)
- Sonatine "a la lune qui s'en va" pour chant et piano, Op.10 No.3, (1946?)
- Suite nocturne pour violin et piano Op.34, (1944)
- Symphoniette pour orchestre a cordes, piano, harpe, et timbales, (1952)
- Symphonie No.3 "Irlandaise" Op.45, (1948)
- Symphonie No.4 "Altitudes" Op.53, (1965)
- Trio a cordes Op.32 No.2, (1943)
- Trois chansons Op.20, (1938)
- Unpublished Scores | 1935-1975
- Absolve, Domine -motet- pour 4 voix d'hommes et orchestre special, Op.30, (1942)
- Ambohimanga, ou La cite bleue -ballet radiophonique-, Op.42, (1949)
- Appel de parfums -chœur- a 4 voix d'hommes, Op.28 No.2, (1941)
- 183eme Concerto - Parodic composition written for violinist
Andre Proffit
's 40th birthday-, (1943)
- Concerto giocoso pour violon et orchestre, Op.18, (1937)
- Concerto "lyrique", Op.38a, (1944)
- Concerto pour alto Op.18b, (1937)
- Concerto pour cello et orchestre Op.52, (1963)
- Concerto pour flute et orchestre, (1971)
- Concerto pour quatuor de saxophones, (1974)
- Concerto No.2 pour violon et orchestre Op.51, (1958)
- Dechiffrage pour hautbois, n.d.
- Fanfare en rondo Op.40, (1946)
- Hecube Op.46, (1949)
- Hymne variation et rondo, (1961/1968)
- Introduzione adagio et passacaglia Op.55, (1966)
- Le lis de Saron ou le cantique de cantiques Op.48, (1952)
- Motet pour quatre voix mixtes Op.28 No.4, (1940)
- Octour Op.57, (1969)
- Ode au soleil ne de la mort, (1945)
- Prelude et toccata, Op.50, (1961)
- En promenade, n.d.
- Quatuor a cordes No.1 Op.43, (1946)
- Rapsodie 72 pour alto et piano Op.60, (1971)
- Romance bleue -rapsodie de concert- pour violon solo et orchestre, (1942)
- Sonatine breve, (1965)
- Sonatine pour clarinette et piano, (1972)
- Suite enchainee pour 11 cordes et clavecin, (1975)
- Suite nocturne pour violon et piano, Op.34, (1946)
- Symphonie en ut Op.17, (1934/1936)
- Symphonie No.2 "Hymne a la Vie" Op.37, (1944)
- Symphonie No.3 "Irlandaise" Op.45, (1948)
- Symphonie No.4 "Altitudes" (originaux) Op.53, (1965)
- Symphonie No.4 "Altitudes" (corrections) Op.53, (1965)
- Symphonie No.4 "Altitudes" (new coda final) Op.53, (1965)
- Symphonie de voyages Op.49 No.1, (1956)
- Symphoniette Op.16, (1935)
- Trio a cordes Op.32 No.2, (1943)
- Trois nouvelles chansons Op.36, (1968)
- Vigintour No.1 Op.58, (1968)
- Scores (Arrangements) | 1946-1969
- Grande fugue, (1969)
- Magnificat, n.d.
- Moto perpetuo, n.d.
- Serenade, (1946)
References
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- ^
"MusicSack"
. Retrieved
October 9,
2011
.
- ^
"Jean Martinon (Obituary)".
The Musical Times
.
117
(1599): 425. May 1976.
JSTOR
959281
.
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"Irish Press", 2, 1 April 1946.
- ^
Joe Kehoe, ‘Maestro, Magician, Midwife: Jean Martinon in Dublin,’ in "Notes and Narratives: France and Ireland", Una Hunt and Mary Pierse (eds), (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2015) 199?215.
- ^
Delta Omicron
Archived
2010-01-27 at the
Wayback Machine
- ^
San Francisco Chronicle
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- Desire-Emile Inghelbrecht
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- Manuel Rosenthal
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- Roger Desormiere
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- Maurice Le Roux
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- Jean Martinon
(music director, 1968)
- Lorin Maazel
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- Kurt Masur
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- Daniele Gatti
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