Louis Ganne

Louis- Gaston Ganne ( born April 5, 1862 in Buxières -les -Mines ( Allier ); † July 13, 1923 in Paris) was a French composer and conductor, known in particular with stage works and marches.

Life

Louis Ganne was born in Auvergne, but grew up in Issy -les -Moulineaux. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, where, inter alia, Théodore Dubois and Jules Massenet (composition ) and César Franck ( organ) were his teachers. In 1881 he received a first prize in the class for harmony, also a second prize in the organ class of Franck. From the same year, he conducted music events and opera balls in the Folies Bergère and other Parisian music halls. Later he worked at the Casino of Royan and in Monte Carlo, where he led the popular concert series " Les Concerts de Louis Ganne ". In 1905 he founded the Orchestre du Casino de Monte Carlo. 1907 Ganne President of SACEM and 1914 was inducted into the Legion of Honor.

Work

As a composer, Ganne focused on more of the lighter muse attributable works, operettas and ballets in particular, music pantomimes and vaudeville. Successful beyond France especially the operetta Les Saltimbanques (1899 ) and Hans, le Joueur de Flûte were according to the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin (1906 in Monte Carlo premiere ). From Gannes instrumentals, inter alia, patriotic marches, was particularly known his Marche lorraine, which was during the Second World War into a major musical theme of the Resistance.