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French composer and cellist
Ernest Gillet |
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Born | Ernest Vital Louis Gillet 13 September 1856
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Died | 6 May 1940(1940-05-06) (aged 83)
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Occupation(s) | Composer Cellist |
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Ernest Gillet (13 September 1856 – 6 May 1940) was a French composer and
cellist, the brother of oboist and composer
Georges Gillet.
Biography
A student at the
École Niedermeyer de Paris then of
Auguste-Joseph Franchomme at the
Conservatoire de Paris, Gillet won the
First Prize of the Conservatoire in 1874
[1] and became a cellist of the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Paris (1875–1882).
[2] Solo cellist of the
Concerts Colonne, the
Concerts Lamoureux and the Concerts de Monte-Carlo, Gillet obtained a great success with his operetta La Fille de la mère Michel,
[3] with a libretto by Daniel Riche in 1893 as well as with his piece Loin du bal (1888) that can be heard in the feature film
The Dancing Masters with
Laurel and Hardy in 1943.
Works
Gillet wrote more than four hundred pieces, including:
- Operetta
- La Fille de la mère Michel (1893)
- Compositions
- Loin du bal (1888)
- Marche burlesque
- Intermezzo
- Entr'acte, gavotte, for violin and piano
- Lejos del baile
- La Lettre de Manon
[4]
- Intermezzo lointain
- Babillage
- Cortège du Sardar
- Passepied for cello and piano
- Canzonetta for cello and piano
- Au moulin
- Au village
- Dans la forêt
- Douce caresse
- Doux murmure
- La toupie
- Serenade de Pierrot, pièce de caractère
- Sommeil d'enfant
- Sous l'ombrage
- Pizzicati
- Sérénade impromptu
- Souvenir d'Espagne
- Vous êtes charmante!, valse
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Bibliography
- Edmund Sebastian Joseph van der Straeten, History of the Violoncello, the Viol Da Gamba, 1915, p. 537
- Florian Bruyas, Histoire de l'opérette en France, 1855-1965, 1974, (p. 336)
- Oscar Thompson, Bruce Bohle, The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians, 1985, p. 822
-
Benoît Duteurtre, L'opérette en France, 1997, p. 99,
ISBN
978-2213625782
- Maurice Hinson, Wesley Roberts, The Piano in Chamber Ensemble: An Annotated Guide, 2006, p. 630
- Bodewalt Lampe,
Stephanie Chase, Popular Classics for Violin and Piano, 2013, p. IX
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