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Antoine-Pierre de Bavier, often referred to as Antoine de Bavier, was a celebrated twentieth-century Swiss clarinettist and orchestral conductor. De Bavier was a pupil of the clarinetist Luigi Amodio and of Wilhelm Furtwängler.〔''Sipariodischi'' website, ().〕 His earlier career was dedicated more particularly to his instrumental work as a clarinettist. He collaborated with the Végh Quartet in their early recording of the Brahms clarinet quintet, and was among the very few soloists〔G.A. Borciani website, (), for this specific.〕 to have worked and recorded with the Quartetto Italiano, with whom in 1952 he recorded the Mozart clarinet quintet. In 1956 he made a landmark recording of the Brahms clarinet sonatas.〔C.J. Lawson, ''The Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet'' (Cambridge: University Press 1995), p. 207.〕 A live recording exists of his performance of the Mozart quintet with the Barylli Quartet at the Salzburg Festival in 1956.〔''Andante'' label. Review by Tim Page, ''Andante Magazine'' ().〕 In that year he was also conducting in Mexico City, for instance, in a performance of the Mozart flute and harp concerto with Gildardo Mojica (flute) and Judith Flores Alatorre (harp).〔Leonard de Lorenzo, ''My Complete Story of the Flute'' (Texas Technical University Press, 1992), p. 2.〕 He was for a time conductor of the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra.〔Naxos information re Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, ().〕 During the fifties, due to health problems, he was forced to leave his brilliant soloist career. He was persuaded by Wilhelm Furtwängler to start a new musical life as a conductor. As a matter of fact, he conducted important orchestras and worked with great soloists, among which the famous Italian pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (four concerts in Germany and Italy, from 1956 to 1961). De Bavier taught chamber music at the Salzburg Mozarteum and at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena (Italy), and was on the international jury for German radio competitions. He gave concerts in the most famous European and American cities.〔''Sipariodischi'' biographical note, cf link in earlier footnote above.〕 Later in his career de Bavier became particularly associated as conductor with the Suk Chamber Orchestra of Prague.〔Suk Chamber Orchestra website, (), including two photos of de Bavier conducting at Kastelruth.〕 At the ''Settimane Internazionale di Musica da Camera'' at Kastelruth (Bolzano) in 1997 and 1999 (the XII and XIV Settimane) he was the guest conductor, on the former occasion dedicating the festival to the work of J.S. Bach.〔''Corriere della Sera'', 2 Sept 1997 () and 5 Sept 1999 ().〕 Similarly he took the Prague Chamber Orchestra, with Mirjam Tschopp as solo violinist, to the Teatro Filarmonico at Brescia (a Mozart concert),〔Saturday 16 September, in ''QuiBrescia'' ().〕 and conducted Mirjam and Sibylle Tschopp with the Filarmonica at Verona in 2002.〔Archive programmes of Verona Filarmonica, September 2002 ().〕 De Bavier conducted a performance of Mozart's serenade the 'Gran Partita' (K 361) at Villa Arvedi in Cuzzaro, Grezzana, with a company of distinguished international instrumentalists, issued in 1999.〔Stradivarius label CD.〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Antoine-Pierre de Bavier」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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