Alexandre-Pierre-François Boëly

Alexandre-Pierre-François Boëly (born April 19, 1785 in Paris , † December 27, 1858 ibid) was a French composer, organist and pianist of the Romantic period.

Life

Alexandre Boëly received his first lessons from his father Jean-François Boëly, who was a singer at the Sainte-Chapelle . At the age of eleven he began to learn violin and piano at the Paris Conservatory; however, he did not finish this course. He gave music lessons early on. It was only in 1834 that he obtained a provisional position as organist at the Saint-Gervais Saint-Protais church , which he held until 1838. In 1840 (according to MGG 1837) he became organist at St-Germain-l'Auxerrois . This post allowed him to gain a certain reputation as a virtuoso and interpreter. He published some of his handwritten works that he had kept since his youth. From around 1845 to 1850 he taught at the choir school of Notre-Dame de Paris . Around 1852 Boëly had to give up the organist position at Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois in favor of one of his students, because the pastor did not like Boëly's style. Boëly was hardly known to the public, but towards the end of his life he gained the trust of a group of friends, including Marie Bigot , Pierre Baillot , Friedrich Kalkbrenner and Johann Baptist Cramer .

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Boëly studied the works of J. S. Bach , Haydn , Mozart and Beethoven , among others . Although he was long committed to romanticism , Boëly turned to the older style of Viennese classicism in his later years .

His work includes two masses and numerous piano, organ and chamber music works. He made frequent use of modulation and chromatics in his instrumental works .

Several musicologists attribute a mature style and high quality to Boëly's works that were lacking in the instrumental works that were widespread at the time.

literature

Brigitte François-Sappey: Entry "Alexandre Pierre François Boëly" in Stanley Sadie, John Tyrrell (Ed.): The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians . 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-19-517067-2
Georges Favre / Hans Albrecht: Entry “Alexandre-Pierre-François Boëly” in Friedrich Blume (ed.): Music in the past and present . 1st edition. Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1949–1986

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SURNAME	Boëly, Alexandre-Pierre-François
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Boëly, Alexandre Pierre François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French composer, organist and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 19, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris
DATE OF DEATH	December 27, 1858
Place of death	Paris