André Jaunet
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André Jaunet was a flutist in the same genre as Marcel Moyse
. In later years well known as a very vivid teacher, living and teaching in Zurich
, Switzerland
. Among others he taught Peter-Lukas Graf
and Aurèle Nicolet
.
, France. He died on December 13, 1988 in Zürich
, Switzerland.
(France), in the Stadtorchester Winterthur (Switzerland), and the Bern Symphony Orchestra (Switzerland), Jaunet moved to Zürich, Switzerland, where he was principal flutist in the Tonhalle Orchestra
from 1938 to 1978. He taught at the Conservatory and Musikhochschule (now Zürcher Hochschule der Künste) from 1938 to 1981. In 1973 he accepted a year-long guest professorship at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg
(Germany). In 1977, he was a guest professor at the University of Toronto
(Canada) for one year. He participated as a juror in many competitions outside Switzerland. Jaunet held summer courses in Banff
(Canada), Japan, Sweden, Holland and, near the end of his life (between 1982 and 1988), gave annual masterclasses in the Swiss cities of Thun
and Obersaxen
.
, Peter-Lukas Graf
, Conrad Klemm, Masao Yoshida
, Paul Meissen, Robert Aitken
, Jean-Claude Gérard
, Emmanuel Pahud
and Günther Rumpel.
Jaunet, André. Wie Meister Ueben: André Jaunet (How Masters Practice), flute, Panton Zürich Editions 1966, 120 pages. Contains two LP records in which the flutist teaches a pupil and then plays the “Andante in C major of Mozart (pupil: Sylvia Baumann). Score for flute and piano.
Gresset, Pascal. “André Jaunet,” Floete Aktuell, Magazin no 4/2007, part 1, pp. 10–37, Translated from French into German by Guenter Rumpel.
Gresset, Pascal. “André Jaunet,” Floete Aktuell, Magazin no 1/2008, part 2, Translated from French into German by Guenter Rumpel.
Jaunet, André. Edited by Guenter Rumpel, Stilistiche Betrachtungen zur Flötenliteratur/Reflexions musicales (Stylistic Observations on Flute Literature). Foreword Aurèle Nicolet, Swiss Flute Association 1991.
Jaunet, André. Wie Meister Ueben: André Jaunet (How Masters Practice), flute, Panton Zürich Editions 1966, 120 pages. Contains two LP records in which the flutist teaches a pupil and then plays the “Andante in C major of Mozart” (pupil: Sylvia Baumann). Score for flute and piano.
Marcel Moyse
Marcel Moyse was a famous French flutist. Many works were composed for Moyse including the 1934 Flute Concerto by Jacques Ibert...
. In later years well known as a very vivid teacher, living and teaching in Zurich
Zürich
Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...
, Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
. Among others he taught Peter-Lukas Graf
Peter-Lukas Graf
Peter-Lukas Graf is a flautist.He was born in Zürich in Switzerland. He was a pupil of André Jaunet, and later attended the Paris Conservatoire, where he won first prize with Marcel Moyse and Roger Cortot. Besides playing the flute both in orchestras and as a soloist, he is a conductor, and spent...
and Aurèle Nicolet
Aurèle Nicolet
Aurèle Nicolet is a Swiss flautist. He is considered as one of the world's best flute players of the late twentieth century. He has performed in various international concerts. A number of composers wrote music especially for him, such composers include Toru Takemitsu, György Ligeti, Krzysztof...
.
Biography
André Jaunet was born on May 17, 1911 in CornéCorné
Corné is a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France....
, France. He died on December 13, 1988 in Zürich
Zürich
Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...
, Switzerland.
Education
From 1924 to 1927, Jaunet studied with Etienne Moncelet in Angers, and from 1927 to 1929 completed his studies with Marcel Moyse in Paris. From 1929 to 1931 he studied at the Paris Conservatory under Philippe Gaubert.Career
After occupying the principal flute positions of the Opera de LilleOpéra de Lille
The Opéra de Lille is a theater-style neo-classical opera house, built from 1907 to 1913 and officially inaugurated in 1923.In 1903 fire destroyed the previous Lille opera house, which had been designed by Lille architect Michael Joseph Lequeux and built in 1785. For the replacement city officials...
(France), in the Stadtorchester Winterthur (Switzerland), and the Bern Symphony Orchestra (Switzerland), Jaunet moved to Zürich, Switzerland, where he was principal flutist in the Tonhalle Orchestra
Tonhalle Orchester Zurich
Tonhalle Orchester Zürich is a symphony orchestra founded in 1868 in Zürich Switzerland, where it established its residence in the neue Tonhalle in 1895....
from 1938 to 1978. He taught at the Conservatory and Musikhochschule (now Zürcher Hochschule der Künste) from 1938 to 1981. In 1973 he accepted a year-long guest professorship at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg
Hochschule für Musik Freiburg
The Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Freiburg is a public music academy subsidized by the State of Baden-Württemberg for academic research and artistic and pedagogical training in music.-History:The Hochschule was initially founded as a municipal institution in 1946 under the direction of Gustav...
(Germany). In 1977, he was a guest professor at the University of Toronto
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...
(Canada) for one year. He participated as a juror in many competitions outside Switzerland. Jaunet held summer courses in Banff
Banff, Alberta
Banff is a town within Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. It is located in Alberta's Rockies along the Trans-Canada Highway, approximately west of Calgary and east of Lake Louise....
(Canada), Japan, Sweden, Holland and, near the end of his life (between 1982 and 1988), gave annual masterclasses in the Swiss cities of Thun
Thun
Thun is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland with about 42,136 inhabitants , as of 1 January 2006....
and Obersaxen
Obersaxen
Obersaxen is a municipality in the district of Surselva in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.-History:Obersaxen is first mentioned in 765 as Supersaxa though this is from a copy which dates from later...
.
Teaching
André Jaunet was mostly remembered as a vivid, dedicated teacher. His pupils included Aurèle NicoletAurèle Nicolet
Aurèle Nicolet is a Swiss flautist. He is considered as one of the world's best flute players of the late twentieth century. He has performed in various international concerts. A number of composers wrote music especially for him, such composers include Toru Takemitsu, György Ligeti, Krzysztof...
, Peter-Lukas Graf
Peter-Lukas Graf
Peter-Lukas Graf is a flautist.He was born in Zürich in Switzerland. He was a pupil of André Jaunet, and later attended the Paris Conservatoire, where he won first prize with Marcel Moyse and Roger Cortot. Besides playing the flute both in orchestras and as a soloist, he is a conductor, and spent...
, Conrad Klemm, Masao Yoshida
Masao Yoshida
was a Japanese amateur pitcher originally from Ichinomiya, Aichi. He had 23 wins at Spring and Summer Koshien. In the National High School Baseball Championship between 1931 and 1933, he won 14 consecutive games at Koshien Stadium and he became the only pitcher to win three consecutive...
, Paul Meissen, Robert Aitken
Robert Aitken (composer)
Robert Morris Aitken, is a Canadian composer and flautist. He began his career as a teenager playing in a number of orchestras, notably becoming the youngest principal flautist in the history of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in 1958 at the age if 19. In 1971 he abandoned ensemble performance...
, Jean-Claude Gérard
Jean-Claude Gérard
Jean-Claude Gérard, a well-known flutist, studied flute at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris with Marcel Moyse.He won several international competitions and began his career in Paris, playing with the Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux and at the Opéra National de Paris. He...
, Emmanuel Pahud
Emmanuel Pahud
Emmanuel Pahud is a Swiss flute player.He was born in Geneva, Switzerland. His father is of French and Swiss background and his mother is French. The Berlin-based flutist is most known for his baroque and classical flute repertory....
and Günther Rumpel.
Awards and Prizes
In 1931, at the age of 20, he was awarded the Paris Conservatory’s First Prize for flute. In 1939 he won the First Prize at the International Music Competition of Geneva. In 1966, the French government awarded Jaunet the Legion of Honour.Solo Work
During his life, besides occupying the principal flutist chair in the Tonhalle, he was active performing as a solo flutist with many orchestras. These included: the Zürich Chamber Orchestra (under the direction of Edmond de Stoutz), the Collegium Musicum Zürich (under conductor Paul Sacher), and the Festival Strings Lucerne (under conductor Rudolf Baumgartner) .Musical Ensembles
For many years, Jaunet played with the Zürich Woodwind quintet, which included André Raoult on oboe, Rolf Kubli on clarinet, Rudolf Leuzinger on bassoon, and Werner Speth on horn. From 1947 to 1962, Jaunet was involved in baroque chamber music in the Zunfthaus zur Meise in Zürich, where he played with Hans Andreae (harpsichord), James Whitehead (cello), Claude Starck (cello), Karl Maria Schwamberger (viola da gamba), Hugues Cuenod (tenor), Hermann Leeb (lute, guitar), Heribert Lauer (violin) and others. Jaunet was also involved in performing modern works and analyzing Schoenberg’s “Woodwind Quintet.” In 1961, he performed Pierre Boulez’s “Sonatine for flute and piano” with Maria Bergmann in Zürich’s Tonhalle, in the presence of the composer.Discography
Although many are out of stock, Jaunet recorded several records over his career. André Jaunet: The Art of the Great Flutist is a 3-CD set that was produced posthumously, with the help of his wife, Clotilde Faillettaz Jaunet, by producer Mr. Muramatsu and Jaunet's former students, Aurèle Nicolet, Peter-Lukas Graf, Guenter Rumpel, Kiyoshi Kasai, and musician Michel Kurz. Muramatsu catalogueJaunet, André. Wie Meister Ueben: André Jaunet (How Masters Practice), flute, Panton Zürich Editions 1966, 120 pages. Contains two LP records in which the flutist teaches a pupil and then plays the “Andante in C major of Mozart (pupil: Sylvia Baumann). Score for flute and piano.
Personal life
In 1937, he married Clotilde Faillettaz. They had two children: Philippe Jaunet (born 1938), and Yvonne Jaunet (born 1940).Death
On December 13, 1988, André Jaunet died at the age of 77 in Zürich after a battle with liver cancer. His ashes are in his beloved native French village of Corné in Anjou’s Loire Valley.Articles
Gresset, Pascal. “André Jaunet, de la douceur angevine aux méfaits de l’anacrouse.” Traversières Magazine: La Revue officielle de l’Assosciation Francaise de la flute, N° 88, Troisieme Trimestre, pp. 24–78Gresset, Pascal. “André Jaunet,” Floete Aktuell, Magazin no 4/2007, part 1, pp. 10–37, Translated from French into German by Guenter Rumpel.
Gresset, Pascal. “André Jaunet,” Floete Aktuell, Magazin no 1/2008, part 2, Translated from French into German by Guenter Rumpel.
Jaunet, André. Edited by Guenter Rumpel, Stilistiche Betrachtungen zur Flötenliteratur/Reflexions musicales (Stylistic Observations on Flute Literature). Foreword Aurèle Nicolet, Swiss Flute Association 1991.
Jaunet, André. Wie Meister Ueben: André Jaunet (How Masters Practice), flute, Panton Zürich Editions 1966, 120 pages. Contains two LP records in which the flutist teaches a pupil and then plays the “Andante in C major of Mozart” (pupil: Sylvia Baumann). Score for flute and piano.