Edmond dédé American Musician

Good music can drive your emotions in seconds and can change your sad mood in a happy mood or happy mood in the sad mood. Whenever you play your favorite music you feel like you are in a different dimension far from this world’s sorrows but have you ever wondered how music can do all this? Because of a good music composition and it’s not everyone’s piece of cake. There are many types of musical instruments whose sounds are bewitching, especially Violin music. Slow soft Violin music calms your chaos and soothes your inner pain and makes you relax and happy. Nothing is better than a violin sound because it’s such an emotional musical instrument, whenever we feel its rhythm it takes us to the magical world of love, takes our soul far from this place.
Today we are sharing a biography of one of the 18th and early 19th century famous musicians and Violinist Edmond dédé.

Early life of Edmond dédé

Edmond dédé a black career composer clearly recognized for his composition and his leadership as a conductor and possibly Minden’s first black composer and conductor of a major orchestra in the American south. Edmond dédé’s music uniquely developed into concert marches that earmarked a new sound for the United States which contributed to the work of patriotic music.
Young Edmond dédé began to develop a strong love for the music growing up in the city of New Orleans, Edmond dédé encountered strange and different looks of life which encouraged him at age of 13 to explore this god gifted ability composing.

Edmond dédé was fortunate to have a Violin lessons with St. Charles theater conductor and an Italian-born Lavaca kabocha. Edmond dédé mastered himself in Violin at a very early age or in other words when he was just a kid or teen.

Although Edmond dédé loved before the composition of his arm he would also perform a musical course of his favorite composer Rodolphe kreutzer 1766-1831, who was a french born violinist from Versailles, France. Rodolphe has written 40 french operas and 48 2 methods for Violin and was the founder of the french school of violin playing. His most noted work is ( la mort de lengua).
Rodolphe Kreutzer is best known for dedicated work to him by Beethoven, the sonata number nine and a major.

Edmond dédé’s big journey

When Edmond dédé was 21 years old, dédé traveled as a musician like any other musician today for a better future. Edmond dédé first moved to Mexico in 1848. It’s unclear why the sudden move but the sources say lessons from Kabocha ended and the white hospitality towards musicians of color forced him to flee to Mexico.

Upon his arrival when he returned back to the united states his life took a different light, he met and fell in love with a french woman Sylvie Leflet and had a young baby boy named Eugene, Eugene also became a classical musician just like his father Edmond dédé.

Edmond dédé began to work as a cigar maker not as a profession but just to earn and save the money to be able to travel to European countries.
Edmond dédé earned the money to move for Europe in the 1850s as reported he arrived in Belgium first then on to Paris France. Edmond dédé started his further musical studies in France.
Edmond dédé managed to obtain an ultimate successful edition of the Paris conservatory. Edmond subsequently got him accepted in 1857 at the age of 30. Edmond’s childhood friend Charles Alvin was also attending at the time and possibly was there before him. After graduating from the conservatory, he had his big break by exploring the other cities of France.
For a good long time Edmond dédé was a conductor of the Grand Theater orchestra in Bordeaux, France.

Edmond dédé’s notable work

Here are the Edmond dédé’s 6 great famous compositions:

Mon Pauvre Coeur (1852)
Quasimodo Symphony (1865)
Le Palmier Overture (1865)
Le Serment de L’Arabe (1865) (written during a stint in Algeria)
Méphisto Masqué (186?) (ophicleide and orchestra, with Mirliton Instruments, or piano solo)
Morgiane, ou, Le sultan d’Ispahan (1887) (opera in four acts)

Richard Rosenberg, a conductor who celebrates the unknown and unprivileged artists, celebrated Edmond dédé’s life and composition at the 2000 hot spring music festival. The music was performed and recorded by the hot spring music festival orchestra.

Google doodle

Last year on Edmond dédé’s 194th birthday google doodle paid a tribute to this legend through their beautiful illustration.
Thanks to Google doodle for sharing wonderful insights. It’s refreshing to learn about so so many unknown people who have contributed to society.

Conclusion

We have linked the Edmond dédé’s contribution to the world of the music and the decorum of which we look forward to in black heritage. he made many dreams come true for other great artists coming from the New Orleans and Minden is truly a pioneer in the culture in the music and in America.