| In October, 1940, Deffayet began replacing
Mule for various engagements at the Opéra and Opéra
Comique. As an orchestral musician, Deffayet has performed
under the direction of such famous conductors as Dorati, Kubelik,
Boulez, Bernstein, Maazel, Markevitch, Martinon, Monteux,
Leinsdorf, Paray, Villa-Lobos, Fricsay, Cluytens, Munch, and
Ozawa. From 1966 until his death in 1988, Herbert von Karajan
called him to be his accredited saxophonist for important
recordings and to play solos with the Berlin Philharmonic
Orchestra. He has also played regularly with several Parisian
orchestras, including the Orchestre National, Opera, Philharmonique,
and many others.
Deffayet began his teaching career in 1948,
and was a professor at municipal Conservatories in Paris,
the Ecole municipale de musique de Beauvais, and at the Conservatoire
du Mans. For many years he taught beside Allard Mayor, who
created the Conservatory of the 10th arrondissement, the first
of the municipal Conservatories in Paris. Tuition was free,
with teaching provided by benevolent professors, to provide
a larger access for students to music; some students have
thus been able to enter the Paris Conservatory*.
When Mule retired in 1968 after 25 years of
teaching, Deffayet succeeded him and continued the spirit
of the French saxophone school. He remained there over 20
years, and was appointed Honorary Professor of the Paris Conservatory*.
In 1953, the year he debuted as a soloist,
playing Ibert's Concertino da Camera, he formed the Quatuor
de saxophones Daniel Deffayet. The quartet performed numerous
concerts in France, and important tours have taken the group
to England, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, the United
States, Japan, and Korea, until 1988, when the group disbanded.
Since that time, Deffayet has collaborated
with Leduc publishing house, transcribing various works for
saxophone. Deffayet and Vandoren have had a relationship since
Deffayet was 21, when the company was managed by Robert Vandoren.
Deffayet continues teaching masterclasses
around the world in the French tradition established by Marcel
Mule.
*C.N.S.M. - Conservatoire National Supérieur
de Musique de Paris
WORKS RECORDED BY DANIEL DEFFAYET :
Ibert: Concertino da Camera (Epic)
Woodwind Music: Gallois-Montbrun, Glazunov (Musical Heritage
Society)
Double Concerto (RTF-Barclay)
Debussy: Rapsodie (ERATO)
Daniel Deffayet, Alto Saxophone: Boutry, Gallois-Montbrun,
Rueff (Crest)
George Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suites 1 & 2 (Deutsche Grammophon)
Oeuvres de P.M. Dubois, Challan, Planel (EMI)
Le Quatuor de Saxophones Deffayet Rueff, Tisné, Pascal
(CBS Sony)
Quatuors de Saxophones: Desenclos, Pierné, Rivier,
Schmitt (EMI)
L' Art suprême du Quatuor de Saxophones (CBS/Sony)
Piéces Classiques, Célébres: arr. by
M. Mule (London)
Le Quatuor de Saxophones Deffayet: Glazunov, Feld, Schmitt
(Crest)
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