Edmond Dédé

Edmond Dede ( born November 20, 1823 in New Orleans / Louisiana, † 1903 in Paris) was an African-American composer, violinist and conductor.

The son of a military bandmaster played the clarinet and then had violin lessons with Constantin Debergue, a black violinist, who led a philharmonic society, and Ludovico Gabici, the director of the orchestra of the St. Charles theater and one of the first music publishers of New Orleans. Later he had counterpoint and composition lessons with Eugène Prévost, who led the orchestra of the Théâtre d' Orléans and a native of New York musician Charles Richard Lambert, the father of the composer Sidney and Charles Lucien Lambert.

Dede lived because of racial discrimination at times in Mexico. After his return to New Orleans he worked as a cigar maker. 1852 appeared as the first composition of a colored musician in New Orleans at all his song Mon pauvre coeur. In 1857 he was able to travel with the financial support of friends to France, where he studied under Fromental Halévy Jacques and Jean- Delphin Alard at the Paris Conservatoire.

He then moved to Bordeaux, where he led the orchestra of the Théâtre l' Alcazar 27 years. A respected violinist, he came with his own works and compositions primarily on Rodolphe Kreutzer. In 1865 he made his Le Palmier Overture and Algeria during a trip Le Sermente de L' Arabe. In the same year Samuel Snaer led in New Orleans the premiere of his Symphony Quasimodo. Dede returned only once - in 1893 - at a concert trip to New Orleans back. His son Eugène Arcade Dede became known as a composer.

• Man
• Born in 1823
• Died in 1903
• Violinist
• American composer
• Composer ( romance )
• Conductor