Alexis de Garaudé (composer, 1821)
Alexis de Garaudé (born October 27, 1821 in Choisy-le-Roi , † August 6, 1854 in Paris ; actually Alexis Albert Gauthier Colombelle ) was a French composer.
The son of the singing professor Alexis de Garaudé and his pupil Clotilde Colombelle (1807-1826), whose promising career as a singer at the Teatro alla Scala was broken off due to her untimely death, became a pupil at the Conservatoire de Paris at the age of eight . He studied solfège with Alexandre Goblin , counterpoint and fugue with François-Joseph Fétis and organ with François Benoist .
In 1841 he won the Second Second Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata Lionel Foscari based on a poem by Claude-Emmanuel de Pastoret . In the same year he was a member of the acceptance commission for the Cavaillé-Coll organ of the Saint-Denise church . He worked as a companion at the Opéra-Comique and at the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire , of which he had been a member since 1849. In 1844 he officially took the name of his father de Garaudé.
De Garaudé published some piano works. His piano transcriptions of compositions by Halévy and Meyerbeer ( La Marche du sacre du Prophète, arrangée pour piano par A. de Garaudé ) became famous .
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| SURNAME | Garaudé, Alexis de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Colombelle, Alexis Albert Gauthier (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 27, 1821 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Choisy-le-Roi |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 6, 1854 |
| Place of death | Paris |