Occupation Composer
Conductor | Died 29 June 1954 | |
Full Name Maurice Henri Louis Fernand Jacquet Born 18 March 1886 Saint-Mandé Spouse(s) Andrée Amalou-Jacquet (harpist) Books The Road to Successful Singing | ||
H. Maurice Jacquet (18 March 1886 – 29 June 1954) was an 20th-century French composer and conductor.
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Biography
The son of Alfred Eugene Gustave Jacquet, a photographer, and Jeanne Joséphine Henriette Noël, a singing teacher, H.Maurice Jacquet initially intended to virtuosity. He made serious studies under the direction of Francis Thomé, a composer and pianist. Since he showed serious provisions for musical composition, he followed the lessons of Émile Vessard, a professor at the Conservatoire de Paris.
A student of conductor Alexandre Luigini, he regularly directed works by Jules Massenet and Gustave Charpentier.
H.Maurice Jacquet composed melodies, symphonic poems for soloists and orchestra as well as piano works. The creation of Messaouda opéra comique written with Davin de Champclos and Andre Mauprey, was quite successful when it premiered at the Théâtre Moncey in Paris. Romanitza, lyrical drama in four acts on a poem by Maurice Magre, is presented with great success in April 1913 at the Theâtre Municipal of Calais. We owe him musicals:: la Petite Dactylo (1916) ; l'As de cœur' (composed in 1917 but created in 1925).
For a while, H.Maurice Jacquet was conductor at the Théâtre de l'Odéon, then during the 20s, he moved to America with his wife, harpist Andrée Amalou-Jacquet, Canada, Cuba (where he directed the National Philharmonic Orchestra for some times), and to Broadway in 1929-1930. He composed two musical comedies and film music for Hollywood.