Alexis de Castiglion, Viscount de Saint-Victor ( December 13, 1838 , Chartres , Eire and Loire - March 5, 1873 , Paris ) - French composer .
| Alexis de Castillon | |
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| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Chartres , Eure-et-Loir , Kingdom of France |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | Paris |
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| Professions | composer |
| Instruments | piano |
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Biography
The representative of the old noble family of the Languedoc dynasty. Parents intended him from childhood to a military career, but Castillon refused it in favor of music, which he began to study first at home, and then piano and composition at the Paris Conservatory . Pupil of Cesar Frank , Victor Masse and Charles Deliu Savignac.
From 1856 he studied at the Saint-Cyr Military Academy. Then he served as an officer in the Cuirassier, later the Ulan regiment.
Despite poor health, he volunteered to participate in the Franco-Prussian war from 1870, but fell ill and was demobilized in 1871.
In February 1871, together with Romain Bussigne , Camille Saint-Saens and Henri Dyupark , he participated in the creation of the National Musical Society who set himself the task of developing modern French music and playing the compositions of living composers.
He died of complications caused by fever in 1873.
Creativity
Alexis de Castillon is the author of classical music. He published several pieces of chamber music (piano quintet , quartet and trio ), many piano pieces and romances , left a piano concerto and symphonic overture "Torquato Tasso", 2 orchestral suites, symphony, mass and psalm in the manuscript.
Selected Works
- Pieces for Piano
- Première suite op. five;
- Cinq pièces dans le style ancien op. 9 (1871);
- Deuxième suite op. ten;
- Six valses humoristiques op. eleven;
- Pensées fugitives (Aveu, Première Mazurka, Causerie, Regrets, Deuxième Mazurka, Feu Follet, Bayadère, Extase, Colombine, Appel du Soir, Troisième Mazurka)
- Chamber music
- Quintette avec piano op. 1 (1864);
- Quatuor à cordes en la mineur op. 3;
- Trio no 1 avec piano op. four;
- Sonate pour violon et piano op. 6;
- Quatuor avec piano en sol mine op. 7 (1869);
- Trio no 2 avec piano (sans n ° d'op.).
- Orchestral music
- Concerto pour piano et orchestre en ré majeur op. 12 (1871);
- Esquisses symphoniques op. 15 (1872);
- Paraphrase du Psaume 84 pour soli, chœurs et orchestre op. 17
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 135407915 // General Regulatory Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 BNF ID : 2011 open data platform .
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
Links
- Castiglion // Musical Dictionary : 3 tons / comp. H. Riemann ; additional Russian department at the staff. P. Weimarn and others; per. and all add. by ed. Yu. D. Engel . - per. from the 5th it. ed. - Moscow — Leipzig: ed. B.P. Jurgenson , 1904 .
- Alexis de Castillon - Gavotte (Esquisses symphoniques)