Charles Constantin (conductor)

Charles Titus Constantin ( born January 7, 1835 in Marseille, † October 27, 1891 in Pau) was a French conductor and composer.

Life and work

Charles Constantin studied at the Paris Conservatory composition with Ambroise Thomas. With the cantata David Rizzio on a text by Gustave Chouquet 1863 he won the Second Grand Prix de Rome; Carrier of the first prize this year was Jules Massenet.

The former director of the Société Nationale des Beaux -Arts, Louis Martinet, he was engaged as a conductor at the 1865 opened by him at the Théâtre des Fantaisies - Parisiennes. In addition to German and Italian operas he brought here the repertoire of French opéra comique with compositions by Ferdinand Herold (Les Rosières, Le Muletier ), Pierre - Alexandre_Monsigny (Le Déserteur ), François -André Philidor (Le Sorcier ) and François Adrien Boieldieu ( Le Nouveau Seigneur du village, Le Calife de Bagdad, La Fête du village voisin ) for performance. In 1869 he conducted the premiere of Federico Ricci's Une Folie à Rome.

1871 Constantin was engaged at the casino in the Rue Cadet, a concert hall and ballroom, where he had to give three major concerts a week based on the famous Concerts Pasdeloup. After an engagement at the Athénée ( 1872-73 ) brought him Hippolyte Holstein as a conductor to his new Théâtre de la Renaissance. Beginning of 1876, he was appointed as the successor of Adolphe Deloffre to the Opéra -Comique. The new museum director Léon Carvalho, the place forgave but in September of the same year to Charles Lamoureux.

For health reasons, leaving Constantin Paris. He conducted some time at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse and at the Royal Theatre of Lisbon. In 1878 he was hired as artistic director of the Casino of Royan, where he organized in every summer season concerts and opera performances. In the same year he settled in Pau as conductor of the theater of the city.

In addition to some stage works Constantin orchestra fantasies and piano arrangements composed to popular contemporary operettas and operas.

Works

  • Bak - Bek, ballet in two acts, first performed in 1867
  • Salut, cantata, UA 1867
  • Dans la forêt, Comic opera in two acts, first performed in 1872
  • Scène de mime
  • Conductor
  • Composer ( romance )
  • Frenchman
  • Born in 1835
  • Died in 1891
  • Man
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