Ozi, Etienne
Ozi, Etienne
Ozi, Etienne, French bassoonist, teacher, and composer; b. Nîmes, Dec. 9, 1754; d. Paris, Oct. 5, 1813. He settled in Paris about 1779, where he made many successful appearances at the Concert Spirituel. He was in the service of the Duke of Orléans (1783–86), and also played in the concert series of the Masonic Loge Olympique de la Paraite Estime (from 1783). From 1786 to 1788 he was first bassoonist in the musique du roi. With the coming of the Revolution, Ozi became a member of the National Guard Band and a teacher of its music
school, the École Gratuite de Musique de la Garde Nationale Parisienne. He remained with it when it became the Institut Nationale de Musique in 1793 and then the Conservatoire National de Musique in 1795. From 1797 he also was director of its publishing activities. From 1797 to 1806 he was a member of the Opéra orch/s virtuoses d’elite and in 1806 he was first bassoonist in Napoleon’s chapelle-musique. Ozi was the author of the pedagogical works Méthode nouvelle et raisonnée pour le basson (1787), Méthode de basson...avec des airs et des duos (1788), and Nouvelle méthode de basson adoptée par le Conservatoire (1803). Among his compositions were 8 bassoon concertos (1785–1801), 4 syms. concertantes, many pieces for wind band, and much chamber music.
—Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire