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Gustave Cloëz (born Cuincy, 1890, died Paris, 1970) was a French conductor who was particularly active at the Paris Opéra-Comique in the mid-20th century, and made a significant number of recordings, often accompanying major singers of the time.〔(CHARM - The house conductor: Gustave Cloez ), accessed 22 November 2013.〕 ==Life and career== Cloëz studied at the Paris Conservatoire, with Charles-Wilfrid de Bériot and Lazare Lévy (piano).〔 Cloëz made his conducting debut at the Paris Opéra-Comique with ''Manon'' on 1 August 1922 and continued at the theatre for 25 years. Premieres at the Salle Favart conducted by him include ''le Fou de la Dame'' (1930 world premiere, music by Delannoy), ''Rayon de Soieries'' (1930 world premiere, Rosenthal), ''Mon Ami Pierrot'' (1935 world premiere, Barlow), ''Le Couronnement de Poppée'', ''Zadig'' (1938 world premiere, Jean Dupérier), ''Mesdames de la Halle'', ''Mon oncle Benjamin'' (1942 world premiere, Francis Bousquet), and ''le Directeur de Théâtre''. He was also in charge of revivals of ''Angélique'', ''La Basoche'', ''Le Roi Dagobert'', ''Djamileh'', ''Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame'', ''La Lépreuse'', ''Pelléas et Mélisande'' (1932), ''Quand la cloche sonnera'' and ''Résurrection''.〔 His first appearance conducting an opera at the Palais Garnier was in ''Faust'' on 1 July 1939. He was an experienced ballet conductor, and among those which he conducted at the Opéra-Comique, some world premieres, were ''Deuxième Rhapsodie'' (Liszt, 1937), ''La Précaution Inutile'' (1946), ''La Bourrée Fantasque'' (1946), ''Danse du Marin'' (music from Félicien David, 1946), ''Casse-Noisette'' (2nd Act, 1947), ''Concerto de Prokofiev'' (based on his third piano concerto, 1947), ''La Belle au Bois Dormant'' (divertisement, 1947), ''Khamma'' (1947), ''Roméo et Juliette'' (music by Tchaikovsky, 1947) and ''La Rose Rouge'' (1947).〔Wolff S. ''Un demi-siecle d'Opéra-Comique.'' André Bonne, Paris, 1953.〕 He conducted the orchestra for the Compagnie d'Ida Rubinstein seasons at the Opéra de Paris from the late 1920s, leading the premieres of ''Les Enchantements d'Alcine'' (music by Auric, choreography by Massine), ''La Valse'' (Ravel, Nijinska) in 1929, ''Amphion'' (Honegger, Massine) in 1931, and ''Diane de Poitiers'' (Ibert, Fokine), and ''Sémiramis'' (Honegger, Fokine) in 1934.〔(Choreographic works in the repertoire of the Opéra-Comique and the Opéra de Paris ), accessed 23 November 2013.〕 Having conducted for them in Brussels in 1947 and 1948, Cloëz worked for the International Ballet of the Marquis de Cuevas from 1955 to 1957.〔 During 1941 to 1945 he conducted several concerts of the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, a notable event being one in aid of the war-ravaged villages of Alsace on 22 May 1945 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (Bach, Beethoven, Respighi). He is credited with an arrangement of Debussy's Petite Suite. 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「Gustave Cloëz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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