François-René Gebauer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

François-René Gebauer

French bassoonist and composer

Date of Birth: 15-Mar-1773

Place of Birth: Versailles, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 28-Jul-1845

Profession: composer, conductor, university teacher, bassoonist, musicologist, music pedagogue

Nationality: France, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About François-René Gebauer

  • François-René Gebauer (15 March 1773, Versailles, France – 28 July 1845, Paris) was a French composer, professor, and bassoonist and the son of a German military musician.
  • He had four brothers, Michel-Joseph Gebauer (1763–1812), Pierre-Paul Gebauer, Jean-Luc Gebauer, and Étienne-François Gebauer, all of whom were also musicians and composers.
  • The brothers played together in a quintet that was modeled on woodwind quintet instrumentation but modified by removing the flute parts to include their brother Jean-Luc, who was a percussionist.
  • The quintet received favorable reviews from critics, who found the music to be "unusually lively for a wind quintet" and "full of earthly elegance". He took music lessons first with his brother Michel-Joseph Gebauer, which ended soon due to artistic differences between the two.
  • He then took lessons with François Devienne, which proved to be more successful.
  • In 1788 he joined the Swiss Guard in Versailles as a bassoonist.
  • In 1790 he joined the orchestra of the Musique de la garde nationale de Paris.
  • From 1801 to 1826 he was a bassoonist in the orchestra of the Paris Opera.
  • In 1795 he was appointed professor of bassoon at the Conservatoire de Paris, a post he held until 1802 and then from 1824 to 1838. His most famous work was Duos Concertants, Op.
  • 48, for horn and bassoon, which featured repetitive rhythmic motifs in phase shifting patterns and strikingly modern asymmetrical melodies.
  • The most memorable effect he achieved with this piece was the portrayal of schadenfreude through jarring note patterns in the bassoon line.

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