Alexandre Pierre François Boëly

Alexandre- Pierre -François Boëly ( born April 19, 1785 Paris, † December 27, 1858 ) was a French composer, organist and pianist of the Romantic period.

Life

Alexandre Boëly received his first lessons from his father, Jean -François Boëly, who worked as a singer at the Sainte -Chapelle. At age eleven, he began to learn at the Paris Conservatoire Violin and Piano; this study it did not result in the end. He gave early music lessons. It was not until 1834 he obtained a temporary organist at the church of Saint- Gervais Saint- Protais, which he held until 1838. 1840 ( according to MGG 1837) he became organist at St- Germain l'Auxerrois. This item allowed him to gain some notoriety as a virtuoso and performer. He published some of his handwritten works, which he had kept since his youth. From about 1845 to 1850 he taught at the choir school of Notre -Dame de Paris. About 1852 had Boëly in favor of one of his pupils, the organist of Saint- Germain l' Auxerrois give up, because the pastor Boëlys displeased style. In public Boëly was hardly known, but he gained the confidence to end of life of a group of friends, including Marie Bigot, Pierre Baillot, Friedrich Kalkbrenner and Johann Baptist Cramer.

Work

Boëly studied, among others, the works of JS Bach, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. Although he was long committed to the romance, to Boëly the older style of Viennese Classicism turned to in his later years.

His work includes two trade fairs and numerous piano, organ and chamber music works. In his instrumental works, he frequently made ​​use of modulation and chromaticism.

Several musicologists speak Boëlys to a mature style and high quality works that lacked widespread in his time instrumental works.