Henry Février (2 October 18756 July 1957) was a French
composer.
Biography
Henry Février was born in Paris, France, on 2 October 1875. He married and had a son, the pianist
Jacques Février. He studied at the
Paris Conservatoire
The Conservatoire de Paris (), also known as the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue ...
, where his teachers included
Jules Massenet and
Gabriel Fauré. He also took private lessons with
André Messager
André Charles Prosper Messager (; 30 December 1853 – 24 February 1929) was a French composer, organist, pianist and conductor. His compositions include eight ballets and thirty opéra comique, opéras comiques, opérettes and other stage wo ...
.
His first compositions were
chamber music, but he is chiefly known for his
opera
Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a libr ...
s and
operettas, among which are ''Le Roi aveugle'' (1906),
''Monna Vanna'' (1909), ''Carmosine'' (1913), ''
Gismonda'' (Chicago 1919), ''La Damnation de Blanchefleur'' (1920), ''L'Ile désenchantée'' (1925), ''Oletta'' (1927), ''La Femme nue'' (1929) and ''Sylvette'' (1932). His works include incidental music for plays, including ''Agnès, dame galante'' (1912) and ''Aphrodite'' (1914). Février ceased composing music in the 1940s. He died on 6 July 1957.
References
Further reading
* Henry Février, ''André Messager : mon maître, mon ami'', Paris, Amiot-Dumont, « Jeunesse de la musique », 1948.
* Hélène Hourrier, ''Henry Février (1875-1957) : introduction à l’étude de Monna Vanna'', mémoire de master 1 sous la direction de Stéphan Etcharry, Université de Reims, 2006.
* Hélène Hourrier, ''La Production lyrique d'Henry Février : genèse, réception et éléments d'analyse'', mémoire de master 2 sous la direction de Jean-Marc Chouvel et Stéphan Etcharry, Université de Reims, 2007.
External links
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1875 births
1957 deaths
French operetta composers
French opera composers
Male opera composers
Musicians from Paris
Conservatoire de Paris alumni
Pupils of Jules Massenet
Pupils of Gabriel Fauré
French male classical composers
19th-century French male musicians