Auguste Barbereau

Mathurin-Auguste-Balthazar Barbereau (born November 14, 1799 in Paris , † July 14, 1879 there ) was a French composer , music teacher and scholar.

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Barbereau had lessons at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1810 , where he studied composition and counterpoint with Antonín Reicha . In 1813 he received a second prize in the violin category. He took part in the Conservatory's composition competition three times and in 1824 received the premier Premier Grand Prix de Rome for the cantata Agnès Sorel .

After his stay in Rome, Barberau became first violinist with the Paris Opera Orchestra and conductor at the Théâtre des Nouveautés in 1830 . Here he performed the opera Les Sybarites de Florence ou les Francs-Maçons in 1831 , which he had composed with Léopold Aimon based on a libretto by Jean-Baptiste Lafite . The following year he became conductor at the Théâtre Français and the Athénée Musical . From 1836 he directed the orchestra of the Théâtre des Italiens , from 1855 the orchestra of the Société de Sainte-Cécile .

Since 1845 Barberau published the three-part Traité théorique et pratique de composition musicale (1. Harmonie élémentaire [théorie générale des accords], 2. Mélodie, son application à l'harmonie; 3. Harmonie concertante [contrepoint et fugue - style scientifique]). The Etudes sur l'origine du système musical followed in 1852 . From 1871 he taught composition at the Conservatoire de Paris, then general music history.

Among the students of Barbereau were u. a. the composers Ambroise Thomas , Jean-Baptiste-Charles Dancla and Camille Durutte , the singer and composer Louise Héritte-Viardot and the pianist Maurice Decourcelle .

literature

• Joël-Marie Fauquet, Collectif: Dictionnaire de la musique en France au XIXème siècle . Fayard, Paris 2003, ISBN 978-2-213-59316-6 , pp. 1405 (French).