Henri Ganeben ( fr. Henri Gagnebin ; March 12, 1886 , Liege - June 2, 1977 , Geneva ) - Swiss composer and organist.
He studied piano with Auguste Laufer and composition with Justin Bischoff-Gillion in Lausanne , then studied in Berlin in 1905 with Richard Rössler, and finally in 1908 went to Schola Cantorum in Paris, where his teachers were Louis Vierne and Abel Deco (organ) , and also Vincent d'Andy (composition). In 1916 he returned to Lausanne, worked as an organist in the Cathedral of St. John, at the same time taught at the Conservatory. In 1925 , Ganieben occupied the post of director of the Geneva Conservatory , where he remained until 1957 (in the early years he also taught in the organ class). As the head of the conservatory, Ganieben was in 1939 at the origin of the International Competition for Performers in Geneva and was its president for a while.
Ganieben's composer's legacy includes a number of oratorios - including The Sacraments of Faith ( fr. Les Mystères de la Foi ) and Saint Francis of Assisi ( fr. Saint-François d'Assise ), four symphonies, four string quartets, a piano concerto, about a hundred transcriptions of Protestant psalms, compositions for organ. Ganeben also acted as music columnist for a number of Geneva newspapers.