Lucien Cailliet

Lucien Cailliet ( May 22nd 1891 in Dijon; † 3 January 1985 in Los Angeles ) was a born in France American composer and clarinetist.

Life

Caillet studied at the Conservatory in Dijon, where he graduated with honors in clarinet. He was then studied composition with Paul Fauchet and Georges Caussades and studied counterpoint with André Gedalge and instrumentation with Gabriel Pares.

He moved in 1918 to the U.S., where until 1937 he worked as a clarinetist and arranger with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski and Eugene Ormandy. He also founded the Cherry Hill Wind Symphony (later the Wind Symphony of Southern New Jersey ) for which he arranged, among other things Sibelius ' Finlandia. He was also a professor at the University of Southern California and conductor of the symphony orchestra.

Published in 1937 Cailliet an orchestration of Mussorgsky's " Pictures at an Exhibition ". In addition to more than two hundred works for wind ensemble, orchestra and choir composed and orchestrated even fifty film scores, including the films She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Ten Commandments and Gunfight at the OK Corral.

In 1937, Cailliet officer of the Académie Française, 1940 Doctor of Music at the Philadelphia Musical Academy.