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Ernest Bour (20 April 1913 - 20 June 2001) was a noted conductor. Born in Thionville, Moselle (in north-eastern Lorraine, then part of Germany), Bour studied at both the University and the Conservatoire of Strasbourg. His conducting teachers included Fritz Münch and Hermann Scherchen.

Perhaps his most heard recording is of Ligeti's Atmospheres with the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra on the soundtrack to 2001: A Space Odyssey.

After serving as chorus master for the radio choruses of Geneva and Strasbourg, he was appointed conductor of the Orchestre de Mulhouse in 1941. In 1950, he became conductor of the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra and in 1955 of the Strasbourg Opera House, where he had conducted the premiere of Delannoy's Puck in 1949. He was principal conductor of the SWF Symphony Orchestra[1]inBaden-Baden from 1964 to 1979. He conducted the European premiere of Berio's Sinfonia during the 1969 Donaueschingen Festival by the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra. From 1976 until 1987, he was permanent guest conductor of The Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra located in the VARA radio headquarters in Hilversum.[2]

Bour's repertoire was marked by a concentration on contemporary music. World premières he presided over included works by Bussotti, Ferneyhough, Górecki, Ligeti, Rihm, Stockhausen and Xenakis, and he gave the French premières of Hindemith's Symphony Mathis der Maler and Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress and the European premiere of Susman's Trailing Vortices.[3] His recordings ranged from music of François Couperin[4]toAndré Jolivet.[5]

Bour died in Strasbourg, aged 88.

References

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  1. ^ "Sinfonieorchester des Südwestfunks Baden-Baden" Ernest Bour Archived 2010-06-21 at the Wayback Machine
  • ^ "Naxos" Classical Artists
  • ^ El Pais, Enrique Franco, Enviado Especial - Alicante - 23 September 1987 [1]
  • ^ Mellers, Wilfrid, "French Classics on the Gramophone" (January 1957). Music & Letters, 38 (1): 66-73.
  • ^ Goldman, Richard F., "Reviews of Records: Jolivet: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. Concerto for Trumpet, Piano and String Orchestra; Andante for String Orchestra" (July 1954). The Musical Quarterly, 40 (3): 465-466.
  • Cultural offices
    Preceded by

    Hans Rosbaud

    Principal Conductor, Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra
    1964–1979
    Succeeded by

    Kazimierz Kord

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