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Samuel David (12 November 1836 – 3 October 1895) was a French composer.
Samuel David
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Samuel David (12 November 1836 – 3 October 1895) was a French composer.
Life
Born in Paris, David studiedharmony
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with François Bazin and musical composition
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with Jacques Fromental Halévy
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at the Conservatoire de Paris. At the age of thirteen he received a first prize in solfège. in 1858 he won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata ''Jephté'' after Émile Cécile.
From 1856 David was choirmaster at the Théâtre-Lyrique. That same year, his operetta
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''Peau de l'ours'' was also performed at Les Folies-Nouvelles. At an international choir festival in Paris, in which 6000 singers took part, his composition ''Le Génie de la terre'' was performed in 1859 and awarded a gold medal.
After his stay at the Villa Medici in Rome (1859–60), which was associated with the Prix de Rome, David became music professor at the Collège Sainte-Barbe
The Collège Sainte-Barbe is a former college in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France.
The Collège Sainte-Barbe was founded in 1460 on Montagne Sainte-Geneviève (Latin Quarter, Paris) by Pierre Antoine Victor de Lanneau, teacher of religiou ...
. From 1872 he was responsible as ''directeur de la musique des temples consistoriaux'' for the liturgical music in the large Grand Synagogue of Paris
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in the Rue de la Victoire. After his death Jules Franck succeeded him in this position.
In addition to choral works, David composed four symphonies as well as numerous operettas and operas, of which only ''Mademoiselle Sylvia'' (after Narcisse Fournier
Narcisse Louis Pierre Fournier (24 November 1803 – 24 April 1880) was a French journalist, novelist and playwright.
Life
He began his literary career aged 22 with two pieces, ''les Secrets de Cœur'' and ''la Poupée''. From then on he prod ...
) was performed at the Opéra-Comique
The Opéra-Comique is a Paris opera company which was founded around 1714 by some of the popular theatres of the Parisian fairs. In 1762 the company was merged with – and for a time took the name of – its chief rival, the Comédie-Italienne ...
in 1868 during his lifetime. In 1862 his music pedagogical writing ''L’Art de jouer en mesure'' was published.
David died in Paris in 1895.
Operas and operettas
*''Les Chevaliers du poignard'', comic opera in two acts, 1864 *''Mademoiselle Sylvia'', 1868 *''Tu l’as voulu'', 1869 *''Le bien d’autrui'', 1869 *''Un caprice de Ninon'', 1871 *''Caprice de Ninon'', 1874 *''La Fée des bruyères'', comic opera in three acts, 1878 *''La Gageure'', comic opera in three acts *''Maccabei'', Italian opera in four acts *''Une Dragonnade'', comic opera in one act *''L’Education d’un prince'', comic opera in one act *''Absalon'', comic opera in one act *''Les Changeurs'', comic opera in one actExternal links
Samuel David
on Musimen. {{DEFAULTSORT:David, Samuel 1836 births 1895 deaths Composers from Paris Conservatoire de Paris alumni 19th-century French composers French Romantic composers French opera composers French operetta composers French male classical composers 19th-century French male musicians