H. Maurice Jacquet

H. Maurice Jacquet (18 March 1886 – 29 June 1954) was an 20th-century French composer and conductor.

The son of Alfred Eugene Gustave Jacquet, a photographer, and Jeanne Joséphine Henriette Noël, a singing teacher, H.Maurice Jacquet initially intended to virtuosity. He made serious studies under the direction of Francis Thomé, a composer and pianist. Since he showed serious provisions for musical composition, he followed the lessons of Émile Vessard, a professor at the Conservatoire de Paris.

A student of conductor Alexandre Luigini, he regularly directed works by Jules Massenet and Gustave Charpentier.

H.Maurice Jacquet composed melodies, symphonic poems for soloists and orchestra as well as piano works. The creation of Messaouda opéra comique written with Davin de Champclos and Andre Mauprey, was quite successful when it premiered at the Théâtre Moncey in Paris. Romanitza, lyrical drama in four acts on a poem by Maurice Magre (fr), is presented with great success in April 1913 at the Theâtre Municipal of Calais. We owe him musicals:: la Petite Dactylo (1916) ; l'As de cœur' (composed in 1917 but created in 1925).

For a while, H.Maurice Jacquet was conductor at the Théâtre de l'Odéon, then during the 20s, he moved to America with his wife, harpist Andrée Amalou-Jacquet, Canada, Cuba (where he directed the National Philharmonic Orchestra for some times), and to Broadway in 1929-1930. He composed two musical comedies and film music for Hollywood.

Vocal works

• 1908: Messaouda, one-act opéra comique, libretto by Davin de Champclos, music with André de Mauprey (Théâtre Moncey, 9 March)
• 1908: Sbarra, four-act opéra comique, libretto by Victor Canon and Saint-Aryan
• before 1913: Romanitza, four-act lyrical drama, libretto by Maurice Magre (Théâtre municipal de Calais, April)
• 1916: Le Poilu, two-act comédie-opérette, libretto by Maurice Hennequin and Pierre Veber (Théâtre du Palais-Royal, 14 January)
• 1916: La Petite Dactylo, three-act vaudeville, libretto by Maurice Hennequin and Georges Mitchell (Gymnase, 21 October)
• 1920: Son Altesse Papillon, three-act operetta libretto by P. Celval and André Mauprey, music with André Mauprey (Lyon, 6 April)
• 1925: L'As de cœur ou Jim-Jim, three-act operetta, libretto by André Mauprey (Nice, 28 March)

Melodies

• A une amie
• Berceuse amoureuse
• Chanson de l'Inconstant
• Invocation à Marie, poem by H. Jacquet (1916)
• Renouveau
• Toi, poem by H. Jacquet