Romanticism · France
1835 – 1921
Paris - Algiers
Review
Child prodigy compared to Mozart, gave his first great recital at the age of ten. He was an organist of La Madeleine for almost two decades and in 1871 he co-founded the Société nationale de musique to promote French music.
Pianist, organist, writer and tireless traveler, lived until the age of 86 and died in Algiers. Its style, clear and elegant, links the classic tradition with the romantic color.
Main works
- Concert for piano No. 2 op. 22 (1868)
- Introduction and roared capricious op. 28 (1863)
- Concert for cello No. 1 op. 33 (1872)
- Dance macabra op. 40 (1874)
- Opera Samson and Dalila (1877)
- Symphony No. 3 «with organ» op. 78 (1886)
- The carnival of animals (1886)
