Name Louis Froment Role Conductor | Education Conservatoire de Paris | |
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Albums Albinoni, Giazotto: Adagio - Corelli: Concerto grosso "Pour la nuit de Noel" (Mono Version) Similar People Janine Micheau, Gabriel Tacchino, Michael Ponti, Ruggiero Ricci, Aaron Rosand | ||
Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2 - Marie Claire Laroche/Louis de Froment
Wieniawski - Polonaise de concert, Op. 4
Louis de Froment ([də fʁɔmɑ̃]; 5 December 1921 – 19 August 1994) was a French conductor.
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- Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No 2 Marie Claire LarocheLouis de Froment
- Wieniawski Polonaise de concert Op 4
- References
Froment was born into a French noble family in Toulouse, and started his musical studies at the city conservatory. He later attended the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique (CNSM) of Paris and was a pupil of Louis Fourestier, Eugène Bigot and André Cluytens. In 1948, he received a first prize in conducting.
Louis de Froment served as music director of orchestras at the casinos of Deauville and Cannes. He also worked as head of the permanent chamber orchestra of the radio in Nice (1958–59), of the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio-Télé Luxembourg (1958–80), and also conducted the Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française.
He conducted the premiere of the Concerto breve, by Xavier Montsalvatge, with Alicia de Larrocha (piano) and the Barcelona Orchestra in 1953, and the opera Les caprices de Marianne by Henri Sauguet at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 1954.
His recordings include:
Froment was the father of one daughter, Marie-José (Mrs Henry-Mamou), by his first wife Reine Gabriel-Fauré. He died in Cannes in 1994, aged 72.