Alexandre-Étienne Choron (musician)
Alexandre-Étienne Choron (born October 21, 1771 in Caen , † June 29, 1834 in Paris ) was a French music teacher, musicologist, composer and publisher.
Life
Choron studied at the Jesuit College of Juilly and at the École des Mines . Gaspard Monge brought him in 1795 to teach descriptive geometry at the École polytechnique, which he founded . He also took music lessons from Abbé Nicolas Roze .
With the publisher Leduc from 1805 he published a large number of works by Italian composers such as Palestrina , Jommelli and Sabbatini . With François Fayolle he published a music lexicon "Dictionnaire historique des musiciens, artistes et amateurs" from 1810-11, which is still considered a standard work today.
As a composer he mainly wrote church music and romances .
In 1811 he was commissioned by the Ministry of Culture as Directeur de la musique des fêtes religieuses with the reorganization of church music. In 1816 he headed the Paris Opera for a short time before founding the institution royale de musique classique et religieuse , which taught music theory, singing and instrumental music in addition to classical subjects. A whole generation of French musicians emerged from this music school, including the singers François Delsartre , Gilbert Duprez , Rosine Stoltz , Clara Novello and Pierre Wartel , the organist and composer Hippolyte Monpou , the conductor and composer Pierre-Louis Dietsch , and the musicologist Adrien de La Fage , the music critic Paul Scudo , the double bass player Nicolas Labro and the church musician Xavier Croizier .
After the July Revolution of 1830 , the institution's funding was cut drastically, leading to its decline. After Choron's death, his son-in-law Stéphane Nicou-Choron ran the school until it was finally closed in 1835. In 1853, Louis Niedermeyer took up Choron's project with the founding of the École de musique classique et religieuse , known as École Niedermeyer .
Fonts
- Méthode d'instruction primaire pour apprendre à lire et àécrire , 1800
- Principes d'accompagnement des écoles d'Italie , [1804]
- Principes de composition des écoles d'Italie , 1808
- Méthode comparée de musique et de plain-chant , 1811.
- Dictionaire Historique des Musiciens , Paris 1810–11; together with François Joseph Fayolle
- Manuel complet de musique vocale et instrumentale , 1836–38; together with J. Adrien de La Fage
literature
- Matanya Ophee: who wrote La Sentinelle. In: Guitar & Laute 4, 1982, issue 4, pp. 217-220.
- Nathalie Meidhof: Alexandre Étienne Chorons accord theory: concepts, sources, dissemination (writings of the Freiburg University of Music, Volume 4) , Hildesheim: Olms 2016.
Web links
- Sheet music and audio files by Alexandre-Étienne Choron (musician) in the International Music Score Library Project
Individual evidence
- ^ Gazette Musicale de Paris. Edited by Maurice Schlesinger, Volume 33/34, 1834, p. 138.
- ^ A. Elwart: Duprez. Sa vie Artistique avec une Biographie de son Maitre, Alexandre Choron. Paris 1838.
- ^ Curriculum vitae on the Musica-et-Memoria website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Choron, Alexandre-Etienne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French music teacher and scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 21, 1771 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Caen |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 29, 1834 |
| Place of death | Paris |