Jean-Baptiste Rey, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jean-Baptiste Rey

French composer and conductor

Date of Birth: 18-Dec-1734

Place of Birth: Lauzerte, Occitania, France

Date of Death: 15-Jul-1810

Profession: composer, conductor, university teacher, music pedagogue

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Jean-Baptiste Rey

  • Jean-Baptiste Rey (18 December 1734 – 15 July 1810) was a French conductor and composer. Rey was born at Lauzerte.
  • He remains the longest-serving conductor of the Paris Opera; his tenure spans from the last years of the monarchy to Napoleon's Empire (1776–1810).
  • As such, he conducted most performances of masterpieces by Gluck, Piccini, Sacchini, Salieri, Gretry, MĂ©hul, Haydn, Mozart, Spontini, etc., many of whom he cooperated with closely.
  • He was the author of an opera, Apollon et Coronis (1781) and several other pieces and arrangements.
  • Rey also wrote the third act of Sacchini's Arvire et ÉvĂ©lina (1788).Before his nomination at the Academie royale, Rey gained fame as a conductor in the theatres of Toulouse, Montpellier, Marseille, Bordeaux and Nantes.
  • He was called to Paris in 1776 to assist the then first conductor, Louis-Joseph FrancĹ“ur, whom he replaced in 1781.
  • In 1779, he was named MaĂ®tre de musique of Louis XVI's royal chamber.
  • In 1781, Apollon et Coronis, the opera he composed with his brother, the cellist Louis-Charles-Joseph Rey, was performed.
  • He kept his position at the Opera throughout the Revolution and participated in a number of revolutionary ceremonies.
  • In 1799, he entered the recently established Conservatoire to teach harmony.
  • He composed some of the Conservatoire's solfeges but was soon expelled along with the composer Jean-Francois Le Sueur, following internal dissensions.
  • In 1803, both Le Sueur and Rey were called by Napoleon to join his chapel: Le Sueur replaced Paisiello as director, while Rey was named first conductor, with Persuis as his assistant.
  • On 2 December 1804, Rey and Persuis conducted two giant orchestras in Notre-Dame for Napoleon's imperial coronation.
  • He died in Paris.

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