André Jouve


André Jouve, born 1929, died 2 March 2019 was a French conductor and radio producer, active mainly in France, who left a number of recordings and was for many years associated with classical music on French Radio.

Life and career

Jouve studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, and took a keen interest in baroque music in the 1950s, and notably recorded Charpentier's Messe de minuit with the Ensemble vocal de Paris, which won a Grand Prix du disque in 1954. He conducted in Paris and Stuttgart including the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire. Jouve was the chorus director for the 1952 Aix-en Provence festival production of Iphigénie en Tauride, conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini, later recorded for Vox Records.
He joined the ORTF in 1969, becoming head of the musical research group which had been founded by Pierre Schaeffer in 1958. Five years later he was running the Orchestre lyrique and the Orchestre de chambre of the ORTF which lasted until 1975. He was later the administrator of Radio France's Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique and from 1981 he was coordinator of programming and music services at France Musique. After leaving Radio France he was part of a working group of the European Broadcasting Union. He was President of the Centre National d'Artistes Lyriques from 1995 to 2005.

Recordings

Jouve's recordings include the following works, with record company labels and year given where available: