Louis Antoine Jullien
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Louis Antoine Jullien (born April 23, 1812 in Sisteron, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France; died March 14, 1860 in Paris) was a music conductor.
He studied at the Paris Conservatoire. His fondness for the lightest forms of music cost him his position in the school, and after conducting the band of the Jardin Turc he was compelled to leave Paris to escape his creditors, and came to London, where he formed a good orchestra and established promenade concerts. Subsequently he travelled to Scotland, Ireland and America with his orchestra. For many years he was a familiar figure in the world of popular music in England, and his portly form with its gorgeous waistcoats occurs very often in the early volumes of Punch. He brought out an opera, Pietro il Grande, at Covent Garden (1852) on a scale of magnificence that ruined him, for the piece was a complete failure. He was in America until 1854, when he returned to London for a short time; ultimately he went back to Paris, where, in 1859, he was arrested for debt and put into prison and released. He finally died in Neuilly near Paris in an asylum.
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- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
- Louis Jullien : Musique, Spectacle et Folie au XIXe Siècle by Michel Faul (Alantica, 2006 ISBN 2-35165-038-7)
- Louis Jullien site (in French)
