Jean-Pierre Jacquillat

Jean-Pierre Jacquillat (13 July 1935 – 6 August 1986) was a French conductor.

Jacquillat was born in Versailles in 1935. He was named assistant to Charles Munch at the Orchestre de Paris in 1967.^[1] He was chief conductor of the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra. He made a number of recordings, with that orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, and others. His career was cut short when he died in a car accident in 1986, aged 51.

Recordings

His recordings include:

• arr. Joseph Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne, with Victoria de los Ángeles and the Orchestre Lamoureux, Paris (released under EMI's Great Recordings of the Century series)^[2][3]
• Emmanuel Chabrier: España (Orchestre de Paris)^[2]
• Ernest Chausson: Poème de l'amour et de la mer and Chanson perpétuelle, with Victoria de los Ángeles and the Lamoureux Orchestra^[2]
• Claude Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Orchestre de Paris)^[2]
• Paul Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Orchestre de Paris)^[2]
• Maurice Duruflé: Three dances for orchestra, Op. 6: Divertissement, Danse lente, Tambourin (Sydney Symphony)^[4]
• Karólína Eiríksdóttir (b. 1951): Sinfonietta (Icelandic Symphony Orchestra) and Five Pieces for Chamber Orchestra (Iceland Chamber Orchestra)^[2][5]
• Reynaldo Hahn: Le bal de Beatrice d'Este (Orchestre de Paris)^[2]
• Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle arr. Hector Berlioz: La Marseillaise (Orchestre de Paris)^[2]
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Concerto, with Einar Johanesson and the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra
• Gabriel Pierné: Marche des petits soldats de plomb (March of the Little Lead Soldiers) (Orchestre de Paris)^[2]
• Maurice Ravel: Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé (Jean-Christophe Benoît and the Orchestre de Paris Ensemble)^[6]
• Camille Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre (Orchestre de Paris)^[2]
• John Speight: Concerto for Clarinet "Melodious Birds Sing Madrigals", with Einar Johanneson (Iceland Symphony Orchestra).^[2]

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