Francis Marie Louis Arnal de Serre ( Fr. Francis Marie Louis Arnal de Serres ; October 8, 1864 , Lyon - December 25, 1942 , Nerond ) - French composer, organist and music teacher.
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Scion of an old noble family. He began his musical education in Lyon. Then he studied at the Paris Conservatory , including in 1885-1888. in the organ class of César Franck , to whom he experienced special piety and about which a memoir essay later published ( Fr. Quelques souvenirs sur le Père Franck, mon Maître ; 1935). The composition studied under the guidance of Ernest Gyro . He served as an organist in the Paris Catholic Church of St. Joseph, nourishing English-speaking parishioners.
Since 1900 he taught at the Paris Schola Cantorum , headed by Vincent d'Andy . After d'Andy’s death in 1931, according to his will, the executive committee had to choose the new director Schola Cantorum from two candidates - de Serre and Guy de Lioncourt , but in the end did not choose either one or the other ( Nestor Lejeune was elected) whereupon de Serre and Lioncourt, together with the majority of teachers and students, left Schola Cantorum and founded in 1934 a new educational institution - the École César Franck School. De Serre became its first director and vocal professor. With a foreword, de Serra came out in 1934 a collection of memories of d'Andy.
In the composer's legacy of de Serre, the symphonic poem “Laski” ( fr. Les caresses ; 1897, based on the eponymous poem by Sully-Prudom ), “Pathetic Andante” for orchestra, vocal cycle for voice and orchestra “Early Hours” ( fr. Les heures claires ; 1903) verses by Emil Verharn . He also owns a number of vocal and choral works, including church ones.
- ↑ 1 2 BNF ID : 2011 open data platform .