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Ernest Bour
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- France
- Active from
- 1913
- Active to
- 2001
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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 aka Sinfonieorchester des Südwestfunks Baden-Baden heard on the soundtrack to 2001: A Space Odyssey. <
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ernest
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Thionville
- Place of death
- Strasbourg
- Occupation
- conductor
- Employer
- Südwestfunk
- Languages spoken
- French
- Field of work
- music
- Genre
- classical music
- Instrument
- piano
- Image
- Donaueschingen- Donaueschinger Musiktage; Ernest Bour am Pult - LABW - Staatsarchiv Freiburg W 134 Nr. 077343a.jpeg
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- date of birth
- 1913-04-20
- date of death
- 2001-06-20
- name in native language
- Ernest Bour
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- Ernest Bour
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