Fernand Halphen

Fernand Gustave Halphen ( born February 18, 1872 in Paris, † May 16, 1917 ) was a French composer.

Life and work

Fernand Halphen was born into a wealthy Parisian Jewish family: his father, Georges Halphen, was diamond dealer, his mother, Henriette Antonia star, came from a banking house star. In 1880, he was portrayed by Auguste Renoir. After he already had as a child studied with Gabriel Fauré, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire composition with Ernest Guiraud and in 1892 when Jules Massenet. In 1896 he won the Second Second Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata Melusine.

Halphen composed, inter alia, a symphony, which was performed in Paris and Monte Carlo, an orchestral suite, a pantomime ( Hagoseida ), a ballet (Le Reveil du faune ), and chamber works. He fell during the First World War as a captain of the thirteenth country Infantry Regiment.

His wife Alice Koenig Warter (1873-1963) founded the Fondation Halphen, the support of the students of composition at the Paris Conservatoire, devoted himself to the publication and performance of their works.