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ANSERMET, Ernest

Place of birth
Vevey

Date of birth
11.11.1883

Place of death
Geneva

Date of death
20.02.1969

Citizenship
Switzerland

Link to biography
https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/fr/articles/020533/2014-03-27/

Founder of the ensemble
LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA

Conductor
ORCHESTRE DE LA SUISSE ROMANDE, GENEVE (1918-1967)

Activity
Composer; Conductor; Choirmaster

Musical genre
Classical music; Music for solo instrument; Military march

Source consulted
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Ansermet 08.08.2019

Biographical history
An internationally renowned Swiss conductor, before starting his musical career Ernest Ansermet studied physics and mathematics at the University of Lausanne and later became a teacher of mathematics in the colleges of the same city. Concurrently, he studied music, taking composition lessons with Ernest Bloch. After studying in Paris, Munich and Berlin, he returned to Switzerland, where in 1912 he became conductor of the Orchestre du Kursaal in Montreux. However, it is as music director for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in Paris, after 1915, that he became known worldwide, with tours in the United States, Europe and Argentina. In 1918 he founded the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (OSR), which he would lead as titular conductor until 1968. A relationship of friendship linked him to Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and Igor Stravinsky, who at the time lived in Switzerland. He was very active in the promotion of living music - in 1922 he founded with Alban Berg and Anton Webern the International Society for Contemporary Music - although he refused Arnold Schönberg and the twelve-tone technique. He conducted the premieres of works that became famous as L’Histoire du soldat, Pulcinella and Renard (Stravinsky), El sombrero de tres picos (De Falla), Pacific 231 (Honegger) and Parade (Satie). Through his work at the OSR he left us many recordings with a very rich repertoire that testifies to his musical conception.


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