Jean-Jacques Werner (20 January 1935 – 22 October 2017)[1] was a French conductor and composer of modern music.
Parallel to his life as a composer, his career as a conductor began in 1960, with the firm desire to make the works of his time known. He conducts the orchestras of the Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française, the chamber orchestra, the lyrical orchestra, the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France and the Orchestre national de France, among others.
Born in Strasbourg, Werner was the eldest of five children. Neither his mother Lucie Lamszus, nor his father Marcel Werner were particularly musicians. He studied music for the first time at the conservatoire in his hometown where he successively won first prizes for harp, horn and orchestral conducting. He then continued his studies at the Schola Cantorum de Paris in Pierre Wissmer's, Daniel Lesur's and Léon Barzin's classes.
Werner died in Barr (Bas-Rhin) at age 82.