Henri Betti, born Ange Betti, was a French composer and a pianist.
12 Facts About Henri Betti
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Henri Betti is the student of Lazare Levy for piano class and Raymond Pech for harmony class.
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Henri Betti then headed for a classical pianist, but in 1940, when he has been discharged from military service of Fortified Sector of the Dauphine in Briancon, he crosses the Corsican composer Roger Lucchesi on the Promenade des Anglais, who told him that he composed a song for Maurice Chevalier and asked him to accompany him to the piano when he the present him in his property La Louque in Cannes.
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Maurice Chevalier refuse the song but to ask Henri Betti be his regular accompanist.
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Henri Betti then wrote music forty songs with the lyrics of Maurice Chevalier and Maurice Vandair until 1945 that Notre Espoir and La Chanson du macon in 1941 or La Fete a Neu-Neu in 1943.
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Henri Betti joined the SACEM in 1941 as composer and was appointed Societaire definitif in 1949.
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Henri Betti has composed for the cinema in the 1950s and television in the 1960s.
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Henri Betti was member of Conseil d'administration of the SACD from 1961 to 1975 and of the SACEM in 1982,1983, from 1985 to 1987 and from 1989 to 1992.
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Henri Betti's funeral held at the Eglise Saint-Pierre de Neuilly-sur-Seine, he is then cremated at the crematorium of Fort Mont-Valerien and buried in the Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery.
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Henri Betti married on 30 July 1949 in Bois-Colombes with the dancer Francoise Engels, met on the operetta Baratin that same year.
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Henri Betti was the brother of Freda Betti and the great granduncle of Alexy Bosetti.
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In 2006, his son Francois Henri Betti realized the musical engravings and wrote the comments of the songbook Une Vie en Chansons.