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Louis Dietsch

Louis Dietsch (17 March 1808 – 20 February 1865) was a French composer and conductor,^[1] perhaps best remembered for the much anthologized Ave Maria 'by' Jacques Arcadelt, which he loosely arranged from that composer's three part madrigal Nous voyons que les hommes.^[1][2]
He was born Pierre-Louis-Philippe Dietsch in Dijon.^[3] Fétis has reported that Dietsch was a choirboy at the Dijon Cathedral, and beginning in 1822 studied at Choron's Institution Royale de Musique Classique et Religieuse in Paris. Later, after 1853, Dietsch was a teacher at the Ecole Niedermeyer (successor of Choron's Institution), a position he held up until his death. In 1830 Dietsch entered the Paris conservatory and studied with Anton Reicha.^[1] His subjects included double bass and counterpoint (with Reicha).^[4]
Dietsch composed church music as well as an opera Le vaisseau fantôme, ou Le maudit des mers ("The Fantom Ship, or The Accursed of the Sea"), which was first performed on 9 November 1842 at the Paris Opera. The libretto by Paul Foucher and H. Révoil was based on Walter Scott's The Pirate as well as Captain Marryat's The Phantom Ship and other sources, although Wagner thought it was based on his scenario for Der fliegende Holländer, which he had just sold to the Opera. The similarity of Dietsch's opera to Wagner's is slight, although Wagner's assertion is often repeated. Berlioz thought Le vaisseau fantôme too solemn, but other reviewers were more favourable.^[1][4]
In 1840 Dietsch had become chorus master at the Paris Opera on Rossini's recommendation.^[4] He took over from Girard as conductor in 1860, but nonetheless could not avoid run-ins with the greatest composers of his day: Wagner blamed the fiasco of the Paris Opera premiere of Tannhäuser (1861) on the conductor, and in 1863 Dietsch resigned over a dispute with Verdi in the midst of rehearsals for Verdi's Les vêpres siciliennes.^[1]
He died in Paris.^[4]

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} Cooper & Millington 1992.
2. ^ IMSLP, Franz Liszt: Versions of Works by Others
3. ^ His last name has also been spelled Dietch, Dietzch, and Dietz (Cooper & Millington, 2001).
4. ^ ^{a b c d} Cooper & Millington 2001.

[edit] Sources

• Cooper, Jeffrey; Millington, Barry (1992). "Dietsch [Dietch, Dietzch, Dietz], (Pierre-)Louis(-Philippe)" in Sadie 1992 vol. 1, p. 1175.
• Cooper, Jeffrey; Millington, Barry (2001). "Dietsch [Dietch, Dietzch, Dietz], (Pierre-)Louis(-Philippe)" in Sadie 2001.
• Sadie, Stanley, editor (1992). The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (4 volumes). London: Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-56159-228-9.
• Sadie, Stanley, editor; John Tyrell; executive editor (2001). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition. London: Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-56159-239-5 (hardcover). OCLC 419285866 (eBook).

[edit] External links

• Free scores by Pierre-Louis Dietsch in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)

Authority control WorldCat VIAF: 56762947

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Name	Dietsch, Louis
Alternative names	Pierre-Louis-Philippe Dietsch
Short description	French composer and conductor
Date of birth	17 March 1808
Place of birth	Dijon
Date of death	20 February 1865
Place of death	Paris

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