Unsung Composers

The Music => Composers & Music => Topic started by: kolaboy on Friday 29 January 2021, 00:31

Title: Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin 1821 - 1910
Post by: kolaboy on Friday 29 January 2021, 00:31
Came across him in a Felicien David biography (Dorothy Veinus Hagan), where his ode symphony "La Poems de la Mer" was mentioned in conjunction with David's "Christopher Columbus" - by which he was apparently influenced. Not a lot to be found about him, web-wise... apart from a very modest wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Weckerlin
Title: Re: Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin 1821 - 1910
Post by: UnsungMasterpieces on Friday 29 January 2021, 16:06
I've never heard of this composer, so I started digging a little on Spotify.
There is a recording available of his operetta "La Laitiere de Trianon", but it's an arrangement for piano and singers.
IMSLP lists it as a piece for vocal soloists & orchestra though, so maybe it's a different arrangement that got released.
Arkivmusic describes the piece as an "opérette de salon".
Title: Re: Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin 1821 - 1910
Post by: nielk on Wednesday 03 February 2021, 12:05
Weckerlin (or Wekerlin) was mainly known as the librarian of the Paris Conservatory, less as a composer, but still he was quite prolific. His Wikipedia page is really terrible, not well written and rather superficial. I've just done a few formal edits, but I will expand it in the next few days. Check back next week or so.
Title: Re: Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin 1821 - 1910
Post by: kolaboy on Saturday 06 February 2021, 02:21
Nice, appreciated.
Title: Re: Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin 1821 - 1910
Post by: eschiss1 on Saturday 06 February 2021, 12:13
His name shows up in the Bibliographie nationale (BdlF) often enough during his lifetime when I was searching for other things  to suggest that he was fairly prolifically published.