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Gaston Salvayre
Gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre (24 June 1847 – 17 May 1916) was a French composer and music critic who won the Prix de Rome for composition in 1872. Biography Born in Toulouse, Salvayre attended the and then the Paris Conservatory, where he studied piano with Antoine François Marmontel, organ with François Benoist, harmony with François Bazin, and composition with Ambroise Thomas. He received a first prize in organ and competed five times unsuccessfully for the Prix de Rome in composition before winning the Premier Grand Prix in 1872 with the dramatic scene ''Calypso''. In Rome he composed several pieces, which were presented in Paris: ''Ouverture symphonique'' and ballet music for Albert Grisar's opera ''Les Amours du diable'' in 1874, and ''La Résurrection'' (a "biblical symphony", in 1876; renamed ''La Vallée de Josaphat'' in 1882).John Trevitt"Salvayre, (Gervais Bernard) Gaston" Oxford Music online, 2001, subscription required. He became the chorus master of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaston Salvayre By Adolphe Lalauze In 1894 – Gallica 2010 (adjusted)
Gaston is a masculine given name of French origin and a surname. The name "Gaston" may refer to: People First name * Gaston I, Count of Foix (1287–1315) *Gaston II, Count of Foix (1308–1343) * Gaston III, Count of Foix (1331–1391) *Gaston IV, Count of Foix (1422–1472) *Gaston I, Viscount of Béarn (died circa 980) *Gaston II, Viscount of Béarn (circa 951 – 1012) *Gaston III, Viscount of Béarn (died on or before 1045) *Gaston IV, Viscount of Béarn (died 1131) *Gaston V, Viscount of Béarn (died 1170) *Gaston VI, Viscount of Béarn (1173–1214) *Gaston VII, Viscount of Béarn (1225–1290) *Gaston of Foix, Prince of Viana (1444–1470) * Gaston, Count of Marsan (1721–1743) *Gaston, Duke of Orléans (1608–1660), French nobleman * Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962), French philosopher *Gaston Balande (1880–1971), French painter and illustrator * Gaston Browne (born 1967), Antiguan politician and Prime Minister *Gaston Caperton (born 1940), American politician * Gaston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas (, ; ; born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (), 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas père (where '' '' is French for 'father', to distinguish him from his son Alexandre Dumas fils), was a French writer. His works have been translated into many languages and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historical novels of adventure were originally published as serials, including '' The Count of Monte Cristo'', ''The Three Musketeers'', ''Twenty Years After'' and '' The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later''. His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth century into nearly 200 films. Prolific in several genres, Dumas began his career by writing plays, which were successfully produced from the first. He also wrote numerous magazine articles and travel books; his published works totalled 100,000 pages. In the 1840s, Dumas founded the Théâtre Historique in Paris. His father, General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Wolff (conductor)
Albert Louis Wolff (19 January 1884 – 20 February 1970) was a French conductor and composer of Dutch descent. Most of his career was spent in European venues, with the exception of two years that he spent as a conductor at the Metropolitan Opera and a few years in Buenos Aires during the Second World War. He is most known for holding the position of principal conductor with the Opéra-Comique in Paris for several years. He was married to the French mezzo-soprano Simone Ballard. Biography Early life and education Wolff was born in Paris, of Dutch parents, though he was a French citizen from birth, never lived in the Netherlands, and never had a Dutch passport. When only 12 years old, he began his musical education at the Paris Conservatoire. There, he studied with such teachers as André Gedalge, Xavier Leroux, and Paul Antonin Vidal. At the same time he played the piano in cabarets and was organist at the Église Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin (Paris) for four years. Upon graduatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Millaud
Albert Millaud was a French journalist, writer and stage author, born in Paris, 13 January 1844, and died in the same city on 23 October 1892.Entry in the catalogue of the Bibliothèque nationale de France accessed 17 May 2016. Life and career He was the son of the banker Moïse Millaud, the founder of '' Le Petit Journal''. He studied law (obtaining his doctorate in 1866), but turned his energies to literature and in 1865 published a volume of poetry entitled ''Fantaisies de jeunesse''. Under the pseudonym Oronte, he wrote ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Collin
Paul Collin (12 July 1843 – 5 February 1915) was a French poet, writer, translator and librettist. Life and career Collin was born in Conches-en-Ouche. In the 18th and early 19th centuries, his family produced administrative officers in the military, mail and law service as well as physicians. He started a professional career as a lawyer before marrying one of the daughters of the French chemist Theodore Gobley. Poetry proved to be Collin's real vocation, and he went on to write libretti and song lyrics for a number of operas and cantatas, collaborating with contemporary composers of the second half of the 19th century including Tchaikovsky, who used several of his shorter poetry works for songs. Collin published a collection of his works in 1886. The first award of the Prix Rossini in 1881 was awarded to Paul Collin and the composer Marie, Countess of Grandval for the oratorio ''La Fille de Jaïre''. Collin also wrote as a music critic for the journal ''Le Ménestrel''. Work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , group=n ( ; 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets '' Swan Lake'' and ''The Nutcracker'', the ''1812 Overture'', his First Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto, the ''Romeo and Juliet'' Overture-Fantasy, several symphonies, and the opera ''Eugene Onegin''. Although musically precocious, Tchaikovsky was educated for a career as a civil servant as there was little opportunity for a musical career in Russia at the time and no system of public music education. When an opportunity for such an education arose, he entered the nascent Saint Petersburg Conservatory, from which he graduated in 1865. The formal Western-oriented teaching that he received there set him apart from composers of the contemporary nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludovic Halévy
Ludovic Halévy (1 January 1834 – 7 May 1908) was a French author and playwright, best known for his collaborations with Henri Meilhac on Georges Bizet's ''Carmen'' and on the works of Jacques Offenbach. Biography Ludovic Halévy was born in Paris. His father, Léon Halévy (1802–1883), was a civil servant and a clever and versatile writer, who tried almost every branch of literature—prose and verse, vaudeville, drama, history—without, however, achieving decisive success in any. His uncle, Fromental Halévy, was a noted composer of opera; hence the double and early connection of Ludovic Halévy with the Parisian stage. His father had converted from Judaism to Christianity prior to his marriage with Alexandrine Lebas, daughter of a Christian architect. At the age of six, Halévy might have been seen playing in that ''Foyer de la danse'' with which he was to make his readers so familiar, and, when a boy of twelve, he would often, on a Sunday night, on his way back to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Meilhac
Henri Meilhac (23 February 1830 – 6 July 1897) was a French dramatist and opera librettist, best known for his collaborations with Ludovic Halévy on Georges Bizet's ''Carmen'' and on the works of Jacques Offenbach, as well as Jules Massenet's ''Manon''. Biography Meilhac was born in the 1st arrondissement of Paris in 1830. As a young man, he began writing fanciful articles for Parisian newspapers and comédies en vaudevilles, in a vivacious boulevardier spirit which brought him to the forefront. About 1860, Meilhac met Ludovic Halévy, and their collaboration for the stage lasted twenty years. Their most famous collaboration is the libretto for Georges Bizet's ''Carmen''. However, Meilhac's work is most closely tied to the music of Jacques Offenbach, for whom he wrote over a dozen librettos, most of them together with Halévy. The most successful collaborations with Offenbach are ''La belle Hélène'' (1864), '' Barbe-bleue'' (1866), '' La Vie parisienne'' (1866), ''La Grand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cécile Mézeray
Cécile Mézéray was a French soprano active in France and Belgium in the mid nineteenth century. Born around 1859, she was one of the daughters of the musician Charles Mézeray (né Costard, born in Brunswick in 1810 and sometime conductor of the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux). Her sisters Caroline and Reine were also professional singers. Fétis F-J. ''Biographie universelle des musiciens'', supplement, vol. 1, pp. 254–255. Paris, 1878. As well as singing, Cécile also played the harp.Noel E and Stoullig E. ''Les Annales du Théâtre et de la Musique, 3eme édition, 1877.'' G Charpentier et Cie, Paris, 1878, 220-221. Life and career At the age of 18? Mézéray appeared with the Théâtre Lyrique at the Théâtre de la Gaîté in Paris as Rosine in the ''Barber of Seville'' in April 1877, and later that season as Violetta Tiepolo in ''Bravo'' by Salvayre. Mézéray made her Paris Opéra-Comique debut on 27 May 1878 as Isabelle in ''Le Pré aux clercs'', having spent the previ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Hillemacher
Paul Joseph Guillaume Hillemacher (25 November 1852 – 13 August 1933) was a French composer and pianist. Life Born in Paris, Hillemacher studied at the Conservatoire de Paris in François Bazin's class. He received a Deuxième Prix for harmony in 1870, and a "1er accessit" in fugue two years later. He won, in 1873, a Second Prix de Rome then, in 1876, the Premier Grand Prix de Rome with his cantata ''Judith''. He composed many stage works, operas, symphonies and art songs. Most of his works were composed in collaboration with his brother Lucien Hillemacher (1860–1909). Their first collaboration began in 1879 with two songs, ''Le Dernier banquet'' and ''Barcarolle''. By 1881, they signed their works, "P. L. Hillemacher", adopting the name Paul-Lucien Hillemacher. In 1882, they published a collection of ''Vingt mélodies'' as well as the symphonic poem ''Loreley'', which won the prize of the City of Paris. One of their songs, ''Ici-bas'', was published by mistake under Debus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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