Anne-Marie Charles Bordes-Bonjean (12 May 1863 – 8 November 1909) was a French music teacher and composer.

Timeline

Bordes was born in La Roche-Corbon,

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Antoine François Marmontel Antoine François Marmontel () (18 July 1816 – 16 January 1898) was a French pianist, composer, teacher and musicographer. He is mainly known today as an influential teacher at the Paris Conservatory, where he taught many musicians who became ...

and

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with

César Franck César-Auguste Jean-Guillaume Hubert Franck (; 10 December 1822 – 8 November 1890) was a French Romantic composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher born in modern-day Belgium. He was born in Liège (which at the time of his birth was pa ...

. He was

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and Maître de chapelle at

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from 1887 to 1890. In 1890 he became maître de chapelle at the Église Saint-Gervais in Paris, where he created the Saint-Gervais Singers Choir, and in 1892 organised ''The Saint-Gervais Holy Weeks'' in which Mass was accompanied by French or Italian renaissance music. In 1897 Bordes published ''Archives de la tradition basque'', an ethnomusicological study commissioned by the French minister of public education.

Schola Cantorum

On 15 October 1896 the Schola Cantorum of Paris was inaugurated. Bordes founded the Schola Cantorum, a society for

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Vincent d'Indy Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy (; 27 March 18512 December 1931) was a French composer and teacher. His influence as a teacher, in particular, was considerable. He was a co-founder of the Schola Cantorum de Paris and also taught at the P ...

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Alexandre Guilmant Félix-Alexandre Guilmant (; 12 March 1837 – 29 March 1911) was a French organist and composer. He was the organist of La Trinité from 1871 until 1901. A noted pedagogue, performer, and improviser, Guilmant helped found the Schola Cantor ...

. The Schola Cantorum was responsible for reviving interest in

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and the music of

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, Josquin des Prez

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and others. Bordes went on to found a Schola Cantorum in Avignon in 1899, and another in Montpellier in 1905. He remained actively involved with the original Schola Cantorum until his early death at

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Bordes' brother married the pianist Marie-Léontine Pène, who was known as Bordes-Pène thereafter.

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* 1863 births 1909 deaths People from Indre-et-Loire French male classical composers French Romantic composers 19th-century French musicologists French music educators Academic staff of the Schola Cantorum de Paris 20th-century French male musicians 19th-century French male musicians 19th-century musicologists {{France-composer-stub