Jean-Jacques Werner

Place: Strasbourg

Born: 1935

Death: 2017

Biography:

Jean-Jacques Werner (20 January 1935 – 22 October 2017) was a French conductor and composer of modern music. He was born in Strasbourg, France, and studied music at the conservatoire in his hometown, where he won first prizes for harp, horn, and orchestral conducting. He then continued his studies at the Schola Cantorum de Paris. Werner's career as a conductor began in 1960, and he conducted the orchestras of the Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française, the chamber orchestra, the lyrical orchestra, the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, and the Orchestre national de France, among others. He died in Barr, France, at the age of 82.