Ernest Gillet Explained
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| Birth Name: | Ernest Vital Louis Gillet |
| Birth Date: | 13 September 1856 |
| Birth Place: | Batignolles (Paris) |
| Death Place: | Paris |
| Occupation: | Composer
Cellist |
Ernest Gillet (13 September 1856 – 6 May 1940) was a French composer and cellist, the brother of oboist and composer Georges Gillet.
Biography
A student at the École Niedermeyer de Paris then of Auguste-Joseph Franchomme at the Conservatoire de Paris, Gillet won the First Prize of the Conservatoire in 1874[1] and became a cellist of the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Paris (1875–1882).[2] Solo cellist of the Concerts Colonne, the Concerts Lamoureux and the Concerts de Monte-Carlo, Gillet obtained a great success with his operetta La Fille de la mère Michel,[3] with a libretto by Daniel Riche in 1893 as well as with his piece Loin du bal (1888) that can be heard in the feature film The Dancing Masters with Laurel and Hardy in 1943.
Works
Gillet wrote more than four hundred pieces, including:
- Operetta
- La Fille de la mère Michel (1893)
- Compositions
- Loin du bal (1888)
- Marche burlesque
- Intermezzo
- Entr'acte, gavotte, for violin and piano
- Lejos del baile
- La Lettre de Manon[4]
- Intermezzo lointain
- Babillage
- Cortège du Sardar
- Passepied for cello and piano
- Canzonetta for cello and piano
- Au moulin
- Au village
- Dans la forêt
- Douce caresse
- Doux murmure
- La toupie
- Serenade de Pierrot, pièce de caractère
- Sommeil d'enfant
- Sous l'ombrage
- Pizzicati
- Sérénade impromptu
- Souvenir d'Espagne
- Vous êtes charmante!, valse
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Bibliography
- Edmund Sebastian Joseph van der Straeten, History of the Violoncello, the Viol Da Gamba, 1915, p. 537
- Florian Bruyas, Histoire de l'opérette en France, 1855-1965, 1974, (p. 336)
- Oscar Thompson, Bruce Bohle, The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians, 1985, p. 822
- Benoît Duteurtre, L'opérette en France, 1997, p. 99,
- Maurice Hinson, Wesley Roberts, The Piano in Chamber Ensemble: An Annotated Guide, 2006, p. 630
- Bodewalt Lampe, Stephanie Chase, Popular Classics for Violin and Piano, 2013, p. IX
External links
Notes and References
- The Aeolian Pipe-organ and Its Music, 1919, p. 140.
- Nelson James Newhard, The Newhard Piano Quartette of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: A Story, 1946, p. 124.
- http://imslp.org/wiki/La_fille_de_M%C3%A8re_Michel_(Gillet,_Ernest) La Fille de la mère Michel on IMSLP
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS1HMkqVzKc La lettre de Manon on YouTube
