Fernand de La Tombelle
Antoine Louis Joseph Gueyrand Fouant Fernand de La Tombelle ( born August 3, 1854 in Paris, † August 13, 1928 at Castle Fayrac in Castelnaud- la -Chapelle ) was a French organist and composer.
Life and work
Fernand de La Tombelle had in his childhood piano lessons with his mother Louise Gueyraud, a student of Sigismund Thalberg and Franz Liszt. From the age of eighteen, he took private organ and harmony lessons with Alexandre Guilmant. At the Conservatoire de Paris, he studied counterpoint, fugue and composition with Théodore Dubois. For his compositions, he twice received the gold medal at the Grand Prix Pleyel.
In the following years he performed as a concert organist on throughout France. In 1896 he founded with Vincent d' Indy, Charles Bordes, Alexandre Guilmant, G. de Boisjolin, Louis -Albert Bourgault - Ducoudray and Edmond de Polignac, the Paris Schola Cantorum, where he taught until 1904 harmony. Among his pupils were, inter alia, Déodat de Séverac, Blanche Selva, Jean Vadon, Marc de Ranse, Leguenant Auguste and Louis Boyer.
Besides music, the diverse interests La Tombelle operated, as a writer and columnist, sculptor and painter, fine art photographer, ethnomusicologist and astronomer. His wife Henriette de Delacoux Marivault was known under the pseudonym Camille Bruno as a writer.
Works
- Crux, oratorio
- L' Abbaye, oratorio
- Le rêve au pays bleu,
- Yannick
- La Magdaléenne
- L' Apothéose de la cité
- La Muse fleurie
- La Roche aux fées
- Impressions naturelles, orchestral suite
- Livres d'images, orchestral suite
- Tableaux Musicaux, orchestral suite
- Suite féodale
- Antar, symphonic poem
- Sainte -Cécile, cantata
- Sainte -Anne, cantata
- Jérusalem, cantata
- Jeanne d' Arc, cantata
- Sancta Maria succurre miseris
- Benedicta es tu
- Tantum ergo
- Ave verum
- Adoro te devote