Émile Bernard (composer)

Jean Émile Auguste Bernard ( born November 28, 1843 in Marseille, † September 11, 1902 in Paris) was a French composer and organist.

Life

Bernard studied at the Conservatoire de Paris under François Benoist François Antoine Marmontel organ and piano. He was between 1887 to 1895 organist at the great Cavaillé -Coll organ of Notre- Dame-des -Champs in the Rue Montparnasse, where he was succeeded after his death Camille Andrès.

Bernard wrote, inter alia, Works in chamber music ensembles, organ music and concert orchestral works. With the Fantasy and Fugue for Organ in 1877 he won the prize of the Société de Compositeurs de Paris. He dedicated his Violin Concerto Pablo de Sarasate, who at the Conservatoire de Paris aufführte it in 1895.

Works

  • Suite for Violin and Piano
  • Concert Piece for Piano and Orchestra
  • Andante and Rondo for Cello and Orchestra
  • Fantasia and Fugue for organ
  • Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
  • Divertissement for Winds
  • Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op 46 (1896 )
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