Serge Baudo is a French

France

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 conductor, the son of the oboist Étienne Baudo. He is the nephew of the cellist Paul Tortelier

Paul Tortelier

Paul Tortelier was a French cellist and composer.Tortelier was born in Paris, the son of a cabinet maker with Breton roots. He was encouraged to play the cello by his father Joseph and mother Marguerite , and at 12 he entered the Paris Conservatoire. He studied the cello there with Gérard Hekking...

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Baudo was conductor of the Orchestra of Radio Nice from 1959 to 1962. He then served as permanent conductor at the Paris Opera from 1962 to 1965. Baudo worked on the music for the 1964 Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water...

 film World Without Sun. He conducted the world premiere in Marseille

Marseille

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 of the opera Andrea del Sarto by Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur

Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur

Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, known often simply as Daniel-Lesur was a French organist and composer. His mother, Alice Lesur, was an accomplished composer in her own right; some of her music was even published....

 in January 1969. Baudo became music director of the Orchestre philharmonique Rhône-Alpes, later the Orchestre National de Lyon

Orchestre National de Lyon

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, in 1971, and served in this post until 1987. During his time in Lyon

Lyon

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, he founded the Berlioz Festival, in 1979.

Baudo was principal conductor of the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

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 from 1997 to 2000, and of the Prague Symphony Orchestra

Prague Symphony Orchestra

The Prague Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1934 by Rudolf Pekárek. In the 1930s the orchestra performed the scores for many Czech films, and also appeared regularly on Czech radio. An early promoter of the orchestra was Dr...

 from 2001 to 2006. His other work with Czech orchestras includes a set of recordings of the complete symphonies of Arthur Honegger

Arthur Honegger

Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam locomotive.-Biography:Born...

 with the Czech Philharmonic.