Albert Cahen
Albert Cahen d'Anvers (8 January 1846 – 27 February 1903) was a French composer best known for light opera.
Composer Albert Cahen in a portrait by Auguste Renoir, 1881
Life
Born in Antwerp to a Belgian-Jewish banking family, Cahen was a pupil of César Franck (composition) and Mme. Szarvady (pianoforte). He enjoyed access to the elite social circles of his day, and made himself known to the musical world with the following compositions:
- Jean le précurseur, a biblical poem (1874)
- Le Bois, a comic opera (1880, Paris)
- Endymion, a mythological poem (1883, Paris)
- La Belle au bois dormant, a fairy operetta (1886, Geneva)
- Le Vénitien, a four-act opera (1890, Rouen)
- Fleur des neiges, ballet (1891)
- La Femme de Claude, a three-act lyric drama (1896, Paris)
He died in La Turbie.
Sources
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Isidore Singer and Isaac Broydé (1901–1906). "Cahen, Albert". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
External links
Media related to Albert Cahen at Wikimedia Commons- Free scores by Albert Cahen at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
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