Jean Fournet

Jean Fournet ( born April 14, 1913 in Rouen, † November 3, 2008 in Hilversum ) was a French conductor.

Fournet studied flute and conducting at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1936 and made his debut as a conductor in Rouen, where two years later he was given a permanent position. In 1940 he went to Marseilles, and from 1944 to 1957 he was Music Director of the Opéra -Comique in Paris. At the same time here, he taught conducting at the École normale supérieure.

In 1950 Fournet first time with the Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition, he became musical director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. In the 1950s created highly acclaimed recordings, inter alia, of Fauré's Requiem and of Bizet's Les perles de pêcheurs. In 1958 he joined with Pelléas et Mélisande first time in Japan.

In 1961 he became conductor of the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. With a stage version of Orff's Carmina Burana and Ravel's L' heure espagnole, he debuted in the U.S. in 1965 as an opera conductor at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. There were other performances of French operas in this city.

In 1978, Fournet first time with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra ( TMSO ) whose regular conductor, he was from 1983 to 1986. In the Metropolitan Opera debuted Fournet 1987 with the opera Samson et Dalila. 1989 appointed him the TMSO its Honorary Conductor. After a European tour in 1988, he has performed with the orchestra in 2002 in Beijing. His farewell concert with the TMSO he gave in 2005.

Fournet played numerous important works on records one, including Berlioz 's Requiem, La damnation de Faust and the Symphonie Fantastique, by Boieldieu The White Lady, the Nocturnes, La Mer and Iberia by Claude Debussy, Saint- Saëns ' Samson et Dalila and its organ Symphony and Massenet's Manon, also also works of lesser known composers such as Ernest Chausson, Bernard Zweers, Hendrik Andriessen and Hans Henkemans.

  • Conductor
  • Frenchman
  • Born in 1913
  • Died in 2008
  • Man
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