Charles Bordes
Charles Bordes (born May 12, 1863 in La Roche-Corbon , Indre-et-Loire department , † November 8, 1909 in Toulon ) was a French composer, music teacher and organist.
Bordes studied piano with Antoine François Marmontel and composition with César Franck . From 1887 to 1890 he worked as an organist and conductor in Nogent-sur-Marne, then at the Saint Gervais church in Paris. Here he founded an international choir ( Les Chanteurs de Saint-Gervais ) and organized the Semaines saintes de Saint-Gervais in 1892 , where Italian and French Renaissance music was performed.
On a trip through the Basque Country he collected ancient Basque music on behalf of the French Ministry of Culture, which he published in 1897 under the title Archives de la tradition basque . Influences of this music can be seen in his suite basque and the rhapsody basque .
In 1894 he founded the Parisian Schola Cantorum with Alexandre Guilmant and Vincent d'Indy , which opened in 1896 as a school for the performance and composition of sacred music. Bordes founded further Scholae Cantorum in Avignon (1899) and Montpellier (1905).
In addition to orchestral and chamber music works, Bordes composed numerous songs based on texts by Victor Hugo , Paul Verlaine , Maurice Bouchor , Léon Valade , Jean Lahor and others.
Works
- Suite basque for flute and orchestra, 1887
- Trois danses béarnaises , 1888
- Overture pour le drame basque Errege Jan , 1888
- Pastorale pour orchester , 1888
- Rhapsodie basque for piano and orchestra, 1889
- O salutaris for solo voice and choir, 1889
- Pie Jesu , 1889
- Les trois vagues , lyric drama, 1890-1906
- Litanies de la très Sainte Vierge for two female voices and choir, 1891
- 4 fantaisies rythmiques for piano, 1891
- Caprice à cinq temps for piano, 1891
- Tantum ergo , motet, 1891
- 12 Noëls populaires basques , (Ed.) 1894
- Madrigal à la musique , 1895
- Mariale, cantique en l'honneur de la très Sainte Vierge , 1896
- Ave Maria , motet, 1897
- 4 antiennes à la Sainte Vierge for two voices, 1898
- Versets pour les 2e vêpres de plusieurs martyrs , 1898
- Fili quid fecisti , 1899
- Verbum caro factum est for four male voices, 1900
- Domine, puer meus jacet , 1900
- Salut au saint sacrement , 1900
- Divertissement for trumpet and orchestra, 1902
- Divertissement sur un thème béarnais for two pianos, 1905
- 11 chansons du Languedoc (Ed.), 1906
- Nunc dimittis, paraphrase du Cantique de Siméon for voice and organ, 1909
- 10 danses, marches et cortèges populaires du Pays basque espagnol (ed.), 1910
- 12 chansons amoureuses du Pays basque français (ed.) 1910
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bordes, Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer, music teacher and organist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | La Roche-Corbon , Indre-et-Loire department |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 8, 1909 |
| Place of death | Toulon |