Ernest Lerwile
Ernest Weiller (4 August 1863, in Paris – 6 April 1944) also known under the pseudonym Ernest Lerwile, was a French double-bass player and composer.
Biography[]
A solo bassist with the Paris Opera, Weiller was responsible for the music of more than 400 songs from before and between the two wars on texts, among others, by , Michel Carré and Eugène Héros as well as many pieces for piano, double bass, string instruments, violins and cellos.
His best known work remains his musical composition for a three-act operetta by , Don Quichotte de la Manche (1935).[1]
Of Jewish origin, Lerwille was dismissed from the Paris Opera in the autumn of 1940 but received an indemnity for his seniority until December 1942.[2]
Bibliography[]
- Agnès Terrier, L'orchestre de l'Opéra de Paris: de 1669 à nos jours, 2003, p. 247
References[]
External links[]
- Compositions by Lerwille on WorldCat
- Compositions by Weiller on Prestoclassical.uk.com
Categories:
- French classical double-bassists
- Male double-bassists
- French classical composers
- French male classical composers
- 1863 births
- Musicians from Paris
- 1944 deaths