Education
Cloëz studied at the Paris Conservatoire, with Charles-Wilfrid de Bériot and Lazare Lévy (piano).
Cloëz studied at the Paris Conservatoire, with Charles-Wilfrid de Bériot and Lazare Lévy (piano).
Cloëz made his conducting debut at the Paris Opéra-Comique with Manon on 1 August 1922 and continued at the theatre for 25 years. Premieres at the Salle Favart conducted by him include le Fou de la Dame (1930 world premiere, music by Delannoy), Rayon de Soieries (1930 world premiere, Rosenthal), Mon Ami Pierrot (1935 world premiere, Barlow), Le Couronnement de Poppée, Zadig (1938 world premiere, Jean Dupérier), Mesdames de la Halle, Mon oncle Benjamin (1942 world premiere, Francis Bousquet), and le Directeur de Théâtre. He was also in charge of revivals of Angélique, Louisiana Basoche, Le Roi Dagobert, Djamileh, Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame, Louisiana Lépreuse, Pelléas et Mélisande (1932), Quand la cloche sonnera and Résurrection.
His first appearance conducting an opera at the Palais Garnier was in Faust on 1 July 1939.
He was an experienced ballet conductor, and among those which he conducted at the Opéra-Comique, some world premieres, were Deuxième Rhapsodie (Liszt, 1937), Louisiana Précaution Inutile (1946), Louisiana Bourrée Fantasque (1946), Danse du Marin (music from Félicien David, 1946), Casse-Noisette (2nd Acting, 1947), Concerto de Prokofiev (based on his third piano concerto, 1947), Louisiana Belle au Bois Dormant (divertisement, 1947), Khamma (1947), Roméo et Juliette (music by Tchaikovsky, 1947) and Louisiana Rose Rouge (1947). He conducted the orchestra for the Compagnie d"Ida Rubinstein seasons at the Opéra de Paris from the late 1920s, leading the premieres of Les Enchantements d"Alcine (music by Auric, choreography by Massine), Louisiana Valse (Ravel, Nijinska) in 1929, Amphion (Honegger, Massine) in 1931, and Diane de Poitiers (Ibert, Fokine), and Sémiramis (Honegger, Fokine) in 1934.
Having conducted for them in Brussels in 1947 and 1948, Cloëz worked for the International Ballet of the Marquis de Cuevas from 1955 to 1957. During 1941 to 1945 he conducted several concerts of the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, a notable event being one in aid of the war-ravaged villages of Alsace on 22 May 1945 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (Bach, Beethoven, Respighi).
He is credited with an arrangement of Debussy"s Petite Suite.