FranÃ§ois Antoine Habeneck

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FranÃ§ois Antoine Habeneck

François Antoine Habeneck (January 22, 1781 – February 8, 1849) was a French

French people

French people can refer to:* The legal residents and citizens of France, regardless of ancestry. For a legal discussion, see French nationality law....
violin

Violin

The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
ist and conductor.

neck was born at Mézières

Charleville-Mézières

Charleville-M?zi?res is a Communes of France in northern France, capital of the Ardennes Departments of France in the Champagne-Ardenne Regions of France....
, the son of a musician in a French regimental band. During his early youth, Habeneck was taught by his father, and at the age of ten played concertos in public. In 1801, he entered the Conservatoire de Paris

Conservatoire de Paris

The Conservatoire de Paris is a music college founded in 1795, based in Paris, France. It offers instruction in music and drama of the highest standards, drawing on the traditions of the "French School."...
, where he studied under Pierre Baillot

Pierre Baillot

Pierre Marie Fran?ois de Sales Baillot was a France violinist and composer.Baillot was born in Passy and studied the violin under Giovanni Battista Viotti....
and obtained the violin first prize in 1804.

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François Antoine Habeneck (January 22, 1781 – February 8, 1849) was a French

French people

French people can refer to:* The legal residents and citizens of France, regardless of ancestry. For a legal discussion, see French nationality law....
violin

Violin

Early life

Habeneck was born at Mézières

Charleville-Mézières

Conservatoire de Paris

Pierre Baillot

Opéra-Comique

The th??tre national de l?Op?ra-Comique is an opera company and opera house in Paris. It is located in the place Boieldieu, in the IIe arrondissement of Paris, near the Paris Stock Exchange and not far from the Palais Garnier, home of the Op?ra National de Paris....
, but shortly afterwards moved to that of the Opéra

Paris Opera

Paris Opera may refer to:In theaters:*Th??tre de l'Acad?mie Royale de Musique, the official theatre of the French theatrical institution known as the Acad?mie Royale de Musique from 1821 until 1873...
. He conducted student concerts at the Conservatoire from 1806 onwards.

Career at the Opéra

In 1817, Habeneck succeeded Rodolphe Kreutzer

Rodolphe Kreutzer

Rodolphe Kreutzer was a France violinist, teacher, conducting, and composer of forty French operas....
as principal violin at the Opéra, and in 1821 he became its director, a position which he held, alone or jointly, until 1846. During that time, he conducted the first performances of, among other operas, La muette de Portici
La muette de Portici

La muette de Portici originally entitled Masaniello, ou La muette de Portici, is an opera in five acts by Daniel Auber, with a libretto by Germain Delavigne, revised by Eug?ne Scribe....
, Guillaume Tell
William Tell (opera)

Guillaume Tell is an opera in four acts by Gioachino Rossini to a French libretto by Etienne de Jouy and Hippolyte Bis, based on Friedrich Schiller's play Wilhelm Tell ....
, La Juive
La Juive

La Juive is a grand opera in five acts by Fromental Hal?vy to an original France libretto by Eug?ne Scribe....
, Robert le diable
Robert le diable (opera)

Robert le diable is an opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer, often regarded as the first grand opera. The libretto was written by Eug?ne Scribe and Casimir Delavigne and has little connection to the medieval legend of Robert the Devil....
, Les Huguenots
Les Huguenots

Les Huguenots is a French opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer, one of the most popular and spectacular examples of the style of grand opera. The libretto was written by Eug?ne Scribe and ?mile Deschamps....
and Benvenuto Cellini
Benvenuto Cellini (opera)

Benvenuto Cellini is an opera in two acts with music by Hector Berlioz and libretto by L?on de Wailly and Auguste Barbier. It was the first of Berlioz's three operas....
.

Orchestral concerts, compositions, pupils and later years

Habeneck became the founding conductor of the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire

Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire

The Orchestre de la Soci?t? des Concerts du Conservatoire was a symphony orchestra established in Paris in 1828. Administered by the philharmonic association of the Conservatoire de Paris, the orchestra occupied the center-stage of France european classical music life throughout the 19th and most of the 20th centuries....
in 1828. By means of these concerts, he introduced Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
's symphonies

Symphony

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into France

France

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. He composed two concerto

Concerto

The term Concerto usually refers to a three-part musical work in which one solo instrument is accompanied by an orchestra. The concerto, as understood in this modern way, arose in the Baroque period side by side with the concerto grosso, which contrasted a small group of instruments with the rest of the orchestra....
s, compositions for the violin, and several songs, but published only a few of his compositions. Among his pupils were Alard

Jean Delphin Alard

Jean-Delphin Alard was a French violinist.Alard was born in Bayonne, the son of an amateur violinist. From 1827 he was a pupil of Fran?ois Antoine Habeneck at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he succeeded Pierre Baillot as professor in 1843, retaining the post till 1875....
, Léonard

Hubert Léonard

Hubert L?onard was a famous Belgium violinist, born at Bellaire, Li?ge . His earliest preparatory training was given by Rouma, after which he entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1836, where he studied for three years under Fran?ois Antoine Habeneck....
and Édouard Lalo

Édouard Lalo

?douard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo was a France composer of Spanish descent....
. Berlioz, in his memoirs, denounced Habeneck for incompetence in conducting Berlioz's own Requiem
Requiem (Berlioz)

The Grande Messe des morts, opus number. 5 by Hector Berlioz was composed in 1837. The Grande Messe des Morts is one of Berlioz's best-known works, with a tremendous orchestration of woodwind instrument and brass instruments, including four antiphonal brass ensembles placed at the corners of the concert stage....
.

Habeneck died in Paris in 1849.

Sources

New Grove Dictionary of Opera

The New Grove Dictionary of Opera is an encyclopedia of opera, considered to be one of the best general reference sources on the subject. It is the largest work on opera in English, and in its printed form, amounts to 5448 pages in four volumes....
, vol 2, p.590

External links

from D. Kern Holoman's The Société des Concerts du Conservatoire 1828-1967 (University of California Press, 2004).