Marie Emmanuel Augustin Savard
Marie Emmanuel Augustin Savard (15 May 1861, Paris – 6 December 1942, Lyons) was a French composer.
He was the son of Marie Gabriel Augustin Savard.[1] He studied with Jules Massenet at the Conservatoire de Paris and in 1886, he won first prize in the Prix de Rome for an oratorio entitled La Vision de Saül.[1][2]
An opera, La Forêt (légende musicale en 2 actes), with a libretto by Laurent Tailhade (1854-1919) was published in 1910 (Enoch et cie., Paris).[3] The music uses modal and whole-tone scales, as well as a great deal of chromaticism.[2]
From 1902 until his retirement in 1921, he directed the Lyon Conservatory.[4]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Morris Foundation Archived 2009-11-26 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Jump up to: a b Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001)
- ^ Open Library
- ^ French Wikipedia article on Savard.
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- 20th-century French composers
- 20th-century French male musicians
- French classical composers
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- French opera composers
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- Musicians from Paris
- Conservatoire de Paris alumni
- Prix de Rome for composition