Désiré Louis Corneille Dondeyne is a French conductor, composer, and teacher born in Laon

Laon

Laon is the capital city of the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France.-History:The hilly district of Laon, which rises a hundred metres above the otherwise flat Picardy plain, has always held strategic importance...

 in the Aisne

Aisne

Aisne is a department in the northern part of France named after the Aisne River.- History :Aisne is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was created from parts of the former provinces of Île-de-France, Picardie, and Champagne.Most of the old...

 département July 21, 1921.

He studied music at the conservatory in Lille and beginning in 1936 at the Conservatoire de Paris

Conservatoire de Paris

The Conservatoire de Paris is a college of music and dance founded in 1795, now situated in the avenue Jean Jaurès in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, France...

. Dondeyne earned first prize in clarinet, chamber music, harmony, fugue, counterpoint, and composition. From 1939 to 1953 he was the solo clarinet with the Musique de l’air (the French Air Force

French Air Force

The French Air Force , literally Army of the Air) is the air force of the French Armed Forces. It was formed in 1909 as the Service Aéronautique, a service arm of the French Army, then was made an independent military arm in 1933...

 Band). From 1954-1979, he was conductor of la Musique des Gardiens de la Paix

La Musique des Gardiens de la Paix

The band of the Paris prefecture of police dates its creation from an order of the Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe on March 31, 1929....

 (the Paris metropolitan police band). Dondeyne expanded the works of the wind orchestra by his discoveries, his own compositions, and with personal encouragement to other composers. The wind orchestra repertory was enriched with compositions from Jacques Castérède

Jacques Castérède

Jacques Castérède is a French composer.He studied at Lycée Buffon in Paris. He gained his baccalaureat in elementary mathematics, before he entered Paris National Conservatory of Music in 1944 and began studying piano under Armand Ferté, composition under Tony Aubin, analysis under Olivier Messiaen...

, Louis Durey

Louis Durey

-Life:Louis Durey was born in Paris, the son of a local businessman. It was not until he was nineteen years old that he chose to pursue a musical career after hearing a performance of a Claude Debussy work. As a composer he was primarily self-taught. From the beginning, choral music was of great...

, Gabriel Fauré

Gabriel Fauré

Gabriel Urbain Fauré was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers...

, Jacques Ibert

Jacques Ibert

Jacques François Antoine Ibert was a French composer. Having studied music from an early age, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire and won its top prize, the Prix de Rome at his first attempt, despite studies interrupted by his service in World War I.Ibert pursued a successful composing career,...

, Charles Koechlin

Charles Koechlin

Charles Louis Eugène Koechlin was a French composer, teacher and writer on music. He was a political radical all his life and a passionate enthusiast for such diverse things as medieval music, The Jungle Book of Rudyard Kipling, Johann Sebastian Bach, film stars , travelling, stereoscopic...

, Darius Milhaud

Darius Milhaud

Darius Milhaud was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are influenced by jazz and make use of polytonality...

, Florent Schmitt

Florent Schmitt

Florent Schmitt was a French composer.-Early life:A Lorrainer, born in Meurthe-et-Moselle, Schmitt originally took music lessons in Nancy with the local composer Gustave Sandré. Subsequently he entered the Paris Conservatoire. There he studied with Gabriel Fauré, Jules Massenet, Théodore Dubois,...

, Germaine Tailleferre

Germaine Tailleferre

Germaine Tailleferre was a French composer and the only female member of the famous composers' group Les Six.-Biography:...

, and Kurt Weill

Kurt Weill

Kurt Julian Weill was a German-Jewish composer, active from the 1920s, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht...

. With la Musique des Gardiens de la Paix he traveled through Europe, made over 100 recordings, and won several Grand Prix du Disques.

He was appointed in 1979 to the governing board of the French Ministry of Culture. He was the director of the conservatory of Issy-les-Moulineaux, a small suburb outside of Paris during 1980-1986. Dondeyne has also composed and arranged a large number of compositions from instrumental to symphonic.

Recordings with Dondeyne and la Musique des Gardiens de la Paix have been issued in the U.S. on the Calliope, Nonesuch Records

Nonesuch Records

Nonesuch Records is an American record label, owned by Warner Music Group and distributed by Warner Bros. Records.-Company history:Nonesuch was founded in 1964 by Jac Holzman to produce "fine records at the same price as a trade paperback", which would be half the price of a normal LP...

, and Westminster label. Included in his recordings are two versions (band, and band with chorus) of Hector Berlioz

Hector Berlioz

Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...

’s Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale

Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale

Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale , Op. 15, is the fourth and last symphony by the French composer Hector Berlioz, first performed on 28 July 1840 in Paris...

.

Honors include induction as an honorary life member of the World Association for Bands and Ensembles (WASBE).

Brass Orchestra Works

• 1964 -- Ouverure pour un festival
• 1964 -- Symphonia sacra
  1. Entree et Aspersion
  2. Litanies
  3. La Verité Salutaire
• 1968 -- Ballade pour une fête populaire
• 1968 -- Deux Danses
  1. Sarabande
  2. Pantomime
• 1978 -- Nuances Pour Orchestre d'Harmonie - Divertissement sur un Thème de Fugue
  1. Prélude (Anches fluides)
  2. Adagio et Scherzetto (Cuivres doux)
• 1984 -- Petit symphonie landaise
  1. "As-Tu-Pédat"
  2. "Cassecan"
  3. Rondo final ("Lou Patissou" - "La Dacquoise")
• 1987 -- Trois Pièces caracteristiques
  1. Catalane
  2. Sérénade
  3. Valse
• 1992 -- In memoriam Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
  
  
• 1992 -- Coup de vents
• 1994 -- Symphonie des souvenirs
• 1996 -- Caractères
  1. Air Tendre
  2. Air Tranquille
  3. Air Léger
  4. Air Martial
• 2004 -- Sevillana
• Cinq interludes en forme de danse
• Classic suite Fantaisie en 6 numéros pour orchestre d'harmonie
  1. Intrada
  2. Danse
  3. Choral
  4. Rigaudon
  5. Nocturne
  6. Cortège (Final)
• Concertino pour accordion solo et orchestre d'harmonie
• Concerto grosso pour euphonium ou baryton, percussions et harmonie de chambre
• Concerto lyrique pour alto-saxophone et orchestre d'harmonie
  1. Allegro - giocoso
  2. Lent
  3. Allegro - Scherzando
  4. Allegro vivo
• Divertimento pour tuba et orchestre d'harmonie
• Fanfanera pour orchestre d'fanfare
• Fantasie sentimentale
• Fortryssimo
• France en chansons (la) pour chœur et orchestre d'harmonie
• Fugue
• Jeux interdits
• Jubile et Marche
• Le Petit Quinquin
• Litanies pour un samedi saint
• Marche du fête
• Menuet
• Ouverture Ballet
• Ouverture fédérale
• Ouverture circonstancielle
• Pour un Siecle Nouveau...
• Sérénade
• Suite parodique
  1. Ouverture miniature
  2. Badinerie
  3. Charleston
  4. Marche
  5. Fanfare finale
• Symphonie No. 4
• Symphonie "Fidélité"
  1. 1er Mouvement
  2. 2e Mouvement
  3. 3e Mouvement
  4. Finale
• Symphonie des saisons
• Toccafuga - loca - Toccata
• Toccarina
• Variations sur la berceuse "Le Petit Quinquin"
• Variations sur un thème montagnard

Chamber Works

• 3 Esquisses pour 2 cors, 3 trompettes, 3 trombones et tuba
• 3 Pièces N°2 des 9 Grands Duos pour 2 clarinettes
• 12 Déchiffrages für verschiedene Gruppen von Instrumenten
• Cantabile et Caprice pour trombone et piano
• Cérès pour saxophone et piano
• Choral et Variations sur le Nom de Tony Aubin
  Tony Aubin
  Tony Louis Alexandre Aubin was a French composer.From 1925 to 1930 Aubin studied at the Paris Conservatory under Samuel Rousseau , Noel Gallon , Philippe Gaubert , and Paul Dukas . He was awarded the Prix de Rome for the cantata Actaeon in 1930...
  
  pour quatuor de clarinettes
• Concertino pour clarinette et piano
• Concerto lyrique pour saxophone et piano
• Double-Fugue pour quatuor de clarinettes
• Double Fugue N°3 des 9 Grands Duos pour 2 clarinettes
• Io pour flûte ou hautbois et piano
• Jupiter pour trompette et piano
• Légende N°9 des 9 Grands Duos pour 2 clarinettes
• Lune pour trompette et piano
• Mars pour trompette et piano
• Mercure pour saxophone et piano
• Musique pour Cuivres pour 2 trompettes, tor, trombone, tuba
• Neptune pour clarinette et piano
• Ouverture N°1 des 9 Grands Duos pour 2 clarinettes
• Pallas pour cor et piano
• Pastorale N°4 des 9 Grands Duos pour 2 clarinettes
• Petite Musique de Cuivres No. 1 pour 2 trompettes, cor, trombone, tuba
• Petite Musique de Cuivres No. 2 pour 2 trompettes, cor, trombone, tuba
• Petite Suite Pastorale pour 4 clarinettes en sib et clarinette basse
• Pluton pour saxophone et piano
• Pour Se Distraire pour 4 bassons
• Pour Se Divertir pour 3 bassons
• Prélude pour basson ou violoncelle et piano
• Préludes N°7 des 9 Grands Duos pour 2 clarinettes
• Presto pour 4 clarinettes
• Ritournelle pour clarinette et piano
• Romance pour clarinette et piano
• Saturn pour saxophone et piano
• Soleil pour clarinette et piano
• Sonatina pour clarinette et piano
• Sonatine In C pour saxhorn basse (tuba) et piano
• Style Fugue N°6 des 9 Grands Duos pour 2 clarinettes
• Suite d'Airs Populaires pour hautbois, clarinette et basson
• Suite Tocellane pour clarinette et piano
• Symphonie des Clarinettes pour 6 clarinettes
• Terre pour trombone et piano
• Triptyque pour clarinette et piano
• Tryptique pour harpe solo et sextuor (flûte, hautbois, clarinette, cor, basson, contrabasse)
• Trois vocalises pour hautbois et piano
• Tubissimo pour saxhorn basse en sib ou euphonium ou ophicléide en sib et piano
• Uranus pour trombone et piano
• Variations N°8 des 9 Grands Duos pour 2 clarinettes
• Véga pour trombone et piano
• Vénus pour clarinette et piano
• Vesta pour clarinette et piano
• Voyages Imaginaires pour saxophone et piano, ou 2 violons et harpe, ou piano et violoncelle

Pedagogical Works

• La Pédagogie des Ensembles de Clarinettes
  1. Volume 1: Pour les débutants pour 4 clarinettes
  2. Volume 2: Choral pour 6 clarinettes
  3. Volume 3: Gavotte pour 4 clarinettes
  4. Volume 4: Prélude inaltéré pour 5 clarinettes
  5. Volume 5: Comme une barcarolle pour 4 clarinettes
  6. Volume 6: Petite fugue pour 2 clarinettes
  7. Volume 7: Menuet pour 4 clarinettes
  8. Volume 8: Marche promenade pour 6 clarinettes
  9. Volume 9: Rhapsodie pour 5 clarinettes

Notable Students of Désiré Dondeyne

• Roland Dyens
  Roland Dyens
  Roland Dyens is a French classical guitarist, composer, and arranger.Dyens studied guitar with the Spanish classical guitarist Alberto Ponce and analysis with Désiré Dondeyne. He has won several prizes in competitions for classical guitar performance as well as for composition...
  
  
• Philippe Ferro
• Marissa Marchant
• Jean-Claude Mazure
• Olivier Guion