Charles Renaud de Vilbac

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Alphonse Zoé Charles Renaud de Vilbac (born June 3, 1829 in Montpellier , † March 19, 1884 in Ixelles ) was a French organist and composer.

Renaud de Vilbac came to the Conservatoire de Paris at the age of thirteen , where he studied organ with François Benoist and composition with Jacques Fromental Halévy . Shortly after his fifteenth birthday, he won the Second Premier Grand Prix de Rome in 1844 with the cantata Le Renégat de Tanger after Claude-Emmanuel de Pastoret .

In 1855 he became the organist of the Merklin-Schütze organ in the Church of Saint-Eugène-Sainte-Cécile in Paris. He held the position until 1871, when he was succeeded by Raoul Pugno . Renaud de Vilbac composed an opera and an operetta, as well as a number of orchestral and piano works as well as piano transcriptions (for example from Saint-Saëns ' Danse Macabre ). He also wrote a Méthode de l'Orgue ou d'Harmonium .

Works

  • Au clair de lune operetta based on a libretto by Antoine de Léris , premiered at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens 1857
  • Don Almanzor , Buffo opera based on a libretto by Eugène Labat and Louis Ulbach , premiered at the Théâtre-Lyrique , 1858
  • Menuet Louis XV
  • Ophélia , Nocturne
  • Petite Fantaisie sur la melody de Tissot
  • Lili polka
  • Petite poupée chérie , waltz
  • Caresses enfantines , Mazurka
  • Echo du désert , Arabic reverie
  • Sonnez clairons , military march
  • Caprice Styria
  • Fior di speranza

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personal data
SURNAME Vilbac, Charles Renaud de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vilbac, Alphonse Zoé Charles Renaud de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French organist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Montpellier
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1884
Place of death Ixelles