Albert Cahen
Albert Cahen d'Anvers (8 January 1846 – 27 February 1903) was a French composer best known for light opera.
Life[]
Born in Antwerp, 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.
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Categories:
- Musicians from Antwerp
- 1846 births
- 1903 deaths
- 19th-century classical composers
- French ballet composers
- French classical composers
- French male classical composers
- French opera composers
- French operetta composers
- Male opera composers
- 19th-century French male musicians
- French composer stubs