Marie Emmanuel Augustin Savard (15 May 1861,

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– 6 December 1942,

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s) was a French composer. He was the son of Marie Gabriel Augustin Savard. He studied with

Jules Massenet Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet (; 12 May 1842 – 13 August 1912) was a French composer of the Romantic music, Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty. The two most frequently staged are ''Manon'' (1884 ...

at the

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and in 1886, he won first prize in the

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for an oratorio entitled ''La Vision de Saül''. An opera, ''La Forêt'' (''légende musicale en 2 actes''), with a libretto by

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(1854-1919) was published in 1910 (Enoch et cie., Paris). The music uses modal and whole-tone scales, as well as a great deal of chromaticism.''Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' (2001) From 1902 until his retirement in 1921, he directed the Lyon Conservatory.French Wikipedia article on Savard.

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