Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht

Désiré -Émile Inghelbrecht ( born September 17, 1880 in Paris, † February 14, 1965 ibid ) was a French conductor and composer.

Life and work

Inghelbrecht came from a family of musicians. His father played the viola in the orchestra of the Paris Opera, and his mother played the violin and piano. So Inghelbrecht had early violin lessons at the Paris Conservatory and took courses in solfège and harmony with Antoine Taudou.

He worked then as a violinist in an orchestra, where he learned the conducting self-taught, and made his debut in 1908 as a conductor at the Théâtre des Arts. He became friends with Claude Debussy, who commissioned him in 1911 with the Chorus for the performance of Le martyr de St. Sébastien.

In 1913 he became conductor at the Théâtre des Champs- Élysées, where he led the French-language premiere of Modest Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov. He remained connected to the theater as a conductor for a long time: he headed from 1920 to 1923 the Ballets Suédois, then to 1925 and in 1932-33 the orchestra of the Opéra -Comique, in 1929-30 the orchestra of the Opera of Algiers and from 1945 to 1950 the the Paris Opera.

From 1928 to 1932 he led the Concerts Pasdeloup. In 1934 he founded the Orchestre National de la Radio Diffusion Française ( ORTF Orchestra later ) that he made up to 1944 and then again ran from 1951 to 1958 and the most important Radio Orchestra of France.

Inghelbrecht played numerous recordings, many of which with works by Debussy and other French composers such as Georges Bizet and Gabriel Fauré. In addition to operas and ballets composed Inghelbrecht orchestral works, chamber music, choral and piano works, film and radio plays.

Stage Works

  • La Nuit Vénitienne ( Alfred de Musset ), Musical Comedy, UA 1908
  • El Greco, Evocations symphoniques, ballet, UA 1920
  • Le Diable dans le beffroi (after Edgar Allan Poe ), ballet, UA 1929
  • La Métamorphose d'Eve, Ballet, 1929
  • Mowgli (after Rudyard Kipling ) for voice, chorus and orchestra, 1946
  • Voyage dans le Bleu, operetta, 1947
  • Le Chêne et le tilleul ( libretto by Germaine Inghelbrecht by Jean de La Fontaine ), Ballet Opera House, 1960
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