Amédée-Louis Hettich
Amédée-Louis Hettich, also known as Amédée Landély Hettich and later as Amédée de Hettich (February 5, 1856, Nantes, France – April 5, 1937, Paris, France) was a French poet, singer, journalist, music teacher, and musicologist.
Biography
[edit]Amédée-Louis Hettich was born in Nantes on February 5, 1856.[1] He studied singing in the class of Jean-Jacques Masset.[2]
In 1881, while they were both students at the Conservatoire de Paris, he wanted to marry the composer Mel Bonis, but the composer's family disapproved of the union.[3] Mel Bonis moved in with the Dommange family at 60 rue Monceau, in the heart of the Europe district, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, in 1898. There, she reconnected with Amédée-Louis Hettich. They had a daughter together, Madeleine, who was born on September 7, 1899.[4]
On December 3, 1883, Amédée-Louis Hettich performed one of Mel Bonis's melodies, Sur la plage!, for which he had written the lyrics. The event took place at Moscow, who potentially could be the composer Adolphe Blanc.[5]
As a poet, he was the muse of Mel Bonis. As a music critic, he wrote for L'Art musical. He wrote critiques of Georges Bizet's Les Pêcheurs de perles, Vincenzo Bellini's I puritani, Jules Massenet's Esclarmonde, Charles Gounod's Mireille, Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, Victorin de Joncières's Dimitri, Camille Saint-Saëns's Ascanio, Benjamin Godard's Dante, Alfred Bruneau's Le Rêve, and Ernest Reyer's Sigurd.[6] He also proposed a French adaptation of the Neapolitan love song 'O sole mio, famously sung by Tino Rossi.
Hettich taught singing at the Conservatoire de Paris. Among his students were Madeleine Grey, Charles Panzéra,[7] Arthur Endrèze, and Erling Krogh.
Amédée-Landely Hettich began in 1906 and published a project of vocal exercises-studies in several volumes.[8] This project spanned nearly 30 years and brought together more than 150 works by composers.
He was made a Knight of the Légion d'Honneur in 1922.[9]
He died on April 5, 1937,[10] eighteen days after Mel Bonis.[11]
Works
[edit]- Vers à chanter, 1899
Notes and references
[edit]- ^ "actes Nantes 3, n°52". www.google.com (in French). 1856. Retrieved 2022-03-13.
- ^ "Portrait de compositrice : Mélanie-Hélène Bonis dite Mel Bonis (I)". Crescendo Magazine (in French). Retrieved 2022-07-23.
- ^ Jardin et al. 2020, p. 18.
- ^ Jardin et al. 2020, p. 21.
- ^ Jardin et al. 2020, p. 161.
- ^ Jardin et al. 2020, p. 215.
- ^ "Mort de M. A. Hettich, ancien professeur au Conservatoire". Le petit journal. 1937-04-07. p. 6.
- ^ Amédée-Landely Hettich (1907). Répertoire moderne de vocalises-études. Alphonse Leduc.
- ^ "Base de données Léonore. Amédée Louis Laudely Hettich". www.leonore.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr. Retrieved 2024-04-10.
- ^ "Amédée Hettich". musee.sacem.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-04-10.
- ^ "Échos et nouvelles". Le Ménestrel. 1937-04-09. p. 120.
Bibliography
[edit]- Jardin, Étienne (2020). Mel Bonis (1858–1937) : parcours d'une compositrice de la Belle Époque. ISBN 978-2-330-13313-9. OCLC 1153996478. Retrieved 2022-03-13.
External links
[edit]- "Category:Hettich, Amédée-Landély - IMSLP". imslp.org. Retrieved 2024-04-10.
- "A. L. Hettich". Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved 2024-04-10.
- Amédée Louis Hettich on Discogs
- Revue Musica (1902–1914); AGORHA – Bases de données de l'Institut national d'histoire de l'art; Musica (1902–1914), Revue; l'art, Institut national d'histoire de (2022-08-16). Hettich, Amédée-Louis.
- 19th-century French journalists
- People from Nantes
- Conservatoire de Paris alumni
- French music critics
- 19th-century French poets
- 20th-century French poets
- 20th-century French composers
- French male poets
- 20th-century French male singers
- 1856 births
- 1937 deaths
- 19th-century French composers
- 20th-century French musicologists
- 20th-century French male writers
- 19th-century French male singers
- 19th-century French male writers
- 19th-century French musicologists
- 20th-century French journalists