Jean Fournet
Jean Fournet (14 April 1913 – 3 November 2008) was a French flautist and conductor.Fournet was born in Rouen in 1913. His father was a flutist who gave him some instruction on the flute and music theory. Fournet was then trained at the Conservatoire de Paris in flute by Gaston Blanquart and Marcel Moyse, and conducting by Philippe Gaubert (himself a flutist). He performed on the flute at age fifteen with the Orchestra of the Théâtre des Arts in Rouen. He first established himself as a conductor in his native country conducting in Rouen 1936-1940, Marseilles 1940-1944, and then as director of the Paris Opéra-Comique 1944-1957. He was also a professor of conducting at the École Normale de Musique de Paris 1944-1962. In 1949, and again in 1950, he was guest conductor with the Radio Éireann Symphony Orchestra. His debut with the Concertgebouw Orchestra was in 1950. The Netherlands became Fournet’s second home. He became principal guest conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in Hilversum 1961-1968, where he also taught conducting. He married Miriam-Hannecart Jakes, an American who performed the Cor anglais with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra from 1977.
He served as music director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra 1968-1973, and the newly created Orchestre National de l’Île de France 1973-1982. He was the conductor of the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra 1983-1986 (he was given the title Honorary Conductor in 1989, and on his death in 2008 he was honored again with the title Permanent Honorary Conductor). His debut with the Lyric Opera of Chicago was in 1965 with a double bill of Carmina Burana and L'heure espagnole, and his debut with the Metropolitan Opera in New York was on 28 March 1987, when he conducted Samson et Dalila.
Fournet was also president of the jury of the Besançon International Conductor's Competition for many years.
He proved a welcome addition to opera companies in America, where the French style had become something of a lost art. Beyond stage work, he proved, both early and late, a persuasive interpreter of the French symphonic literature. He was known as a gentle perfectionist, rarely raising his voice in rehearsal. Jean Fournet's career extended over an extraordinarily long period. His final concert was conducted in January 2005, at age 91, with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. Following that concert he retired to his home in Weesp near Hilversum in the Netherlands, where he died in 2008, aged 95. Provided by Wikipedia
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by Fournet, Jean-Luc
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by Fournet, Jean-Luc
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by Fournet, Jean-Luc
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by Fournet, Jean-Luc
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by Fournet, Jean-Luc
Le Caire : Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 2009
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by Fournet, Jean-Luc
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by Fournet, Jean-Luc
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by Fournet, Jean-Luc
Le Caire : Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1999
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by Fournet, Jean-Luc, Tihon, Anne
Louvain-la-Neuve : Université catholique de Louvain, Institut orientaliste, 2014
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by Duchesne-Fournet, Jean, 1875-1904
Paris : Masson, 1908
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by Franck, César, 1822-1890
Czechoslovakia : Supraphon, 1965
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by Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869
[U.S.] : Columbia, 1949
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by Chailley, Jacques, 1910-1999
[France] : Accord : Distribution, Musidisc, 1984
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by Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918
[New York] : Epic, 1950
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[U.S.] : Columbia, 1949
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by Franck, César, 1822-1890
New York : Crossroads Records, 1967
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by Lalo, Edouard, 1823-1892
Epic 1957
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