Émile Paladilhe

Émile Paladilhe ( born June 3, 1844 in Montpellier, † January 6, 1926 in Rouen ) was a French composer and pianist.

Paladilhe, son of a physician interested in music, had in early childhood lessons with Dom Sébastien Boixet, the organist of the Cathedral of Montpellier. He turned out to be highly gifted, so that Boixet recommended him when he was ten years old, to be sent to the Conservatoire de Paris. The family moved to Paris with him, and he studied at the Conservatoire with Antoine François Marmontel piano, with François Benoist organ and Jacques Fromental Halévy at the piano. He was fifteen years old piano concerts at the Salle Henri Heart and 1860 was the youngest winner of the Premier Grand Prix de Rome in the history of the award, which he received for the cantata Ivan IV before Adolphe Deslandres and Isidore Legouix.

After his three-year stay at the Villa Medici in Rome, which is connected with the price, Paladilhe made ​​in Paris a career as an opera composer. 1872 opera Le Passant was premiered at the Opéra -Comique. After several comic operas Patrie was his most successful work on a libretto by Louis Gallet and Victorien Sardou.

In addition Paladilhe was an important composer of church music works, as their most important oratorio Les Saintes -Marie de la Mer applies after a poem by Louis Gallet. It was first performed in 1892 under the leadership of François Borne in Montpellier. His Messe de St François d' Assise was premiered in 1896 at the Church of St -Eustache.

Furthermore Paladilhe composed a symphony, more orchestral and instrumental works, and numerous piano pieces.

He was with Georgina, the granddaughter of writer Ernest Legouvé married. Their son Jean Paladilhe worked for sixty years as a curator at the Musée Gustave Moreau in Paris, whose son Dominique Paladilhe became known as an author of historical novels.

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• French composer
• Born in 1844
• Died in 1926
• Man