Albert Cahen d'Anvers (8 January 1846 – 27 February 1903) was a French composer best known for light opera.
Life
Born in
Antwerp
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to a Belgian-Jewish banking family, Cahen was a pupil of
César Franck
César Auguste Jean Guillaume Hubert Franck (; 10 December 1822 – 8 November 1890) was a French Romantic music, Romantic composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher born in present-day Belgium.
He was born in Liège (which at the time of h ...
(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
La Turbie (; ; ) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France.
History
La Turbie was famous in Roman times for the large monument, the Trophy of Augustus, that Augustus made to celebrate his victory over the Ligur ...
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Musicians from Antwerp
1846 births
1903 deaths
19th-century French classical composers
French ballet composers
French opera composers
French operetta composers
French people of Jewish descent
French Jews
French male opera composers
19th-century French male musicians
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