Jean-Joseph Rodolphe

Jean -Joseph Rodolphe (also: Johann Joseph Rudolph, born October 14, 1730 in Strasbourg, † August 18, 1812 in Paris) was an Alsatian horn player, violinist, composer and music teacher.

Rodolphe had at the age of fifteen years of violin lessons with Jean -Marie Leclair in Paris. He was an orchestra musician in Bordeaux and Montpellier and went to Parma to study at Tommaso Traetta composition. Between 1760 and 1766 he was a member of the Württemberg court chapel of Carl Eugen. Here he completed his musical education at Niccolò Jomelli. As a ballet composer, he collaborated with choreographer Jean -Georges Noverre.

He then went to Paris and was principal horn of the court orchestra of Prince Louis François de Conti, and teacher of composition at the Royale du Chant et de declamation. Through the French Revolution he lost his points, but was professor from 1795 at the newly founded for singing the Paris Conservatory. In his last years he gave private lessons.

Works

  • Rinaldo ed Armida, ballet, 1761
  • Psyché et l' Amour, Ballet, 1762
  • Médée et Jason [ Medea and Jason ], Ballet, 1763
  • Le Mariage par capitulation, opera, 1764
  • L' Aveugle de Palmyre, opera, 1767
  • Isménor, opera, 1773
  • Nanine, sœur de lait de la reine de Golconde, opera, 1773
  • 2 Horn Concertos
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