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Sep 20, 1866 Aigle, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland Died on 19 Apr 1943 (aged 76)
Swiss composer and conductor (1866-1943)
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About Gustave Doret
- Gustave Doret (20 September 1866 – 19 April 1943) was a Swiss composer and conductor. Doret was born in 1866 in Aigle, Switzerland.
- He studied at the Berlin Academy of Music with Joseph Joachim, and then at the Conservatoire de Paris with Théodore Dubois and Jules Massenet.
- His career as a conductor began in 1894 in Paris, where he led the first performance of Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune.
- He was second conductor of the Concerts d'Harcourt from 1893 to 1895 and director of the Opéra-Comique in the 1890s and 1900s.
- He was also the founder of the Théâtre du Jorat, in Mézières. His two serious operas, heavily indebted to Massenet, were performed in Paris; his light opera and other stage works were far more popular across French-speaking Europe.
- In 1914, Doret returned to Switzerland and began studying local popular music and folk music traditions.
- He also wrote for Swiss newspapers and wrote a memoir, Temps et contretemps, published in 1942. Most of his output was vocal, and included operas, music theatre pieces, one oratorio, choral music, and more than 300 songs.
- His only instrumental works were two orchestral pieces, a string quartet, and a piano quintet. Doret died 1943 in Lausanne.
