Fernand Le Borne
Fernand Le Borne (born March 10, 1862 in Charleroi , † February 15, 1929 in Paris ) was a French composer and music critic of Belgian origin.
life and work
Le Borne, son of the composer Aimé Ambroise Leborne (1797–1866), studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Jules Massenet , Camille Saint-Saëns and César Franck . Then he settled permanently in France. There he worked as a music critic (for the newspapers " Le Petit Parisien " and " Monde artiste ", as well as the Paris correspondent of the Brussels " Le Soir ") and as a freelance composer. In 1910 he received the Prix Chartier .
His numerous works include symphonic and concert compositions, chamber music, masses and motets as well as several stage works, including the opera Les Girondins , which premiered in Lyon in 1905. Fernand Le Borne's music is hardly cared for these days. A Fantaisie brilliant on themes from Bizet's Carmen for flute and piano, which often erroneously appears under his name in concert programs , actually comes from François Borne .
Works (selection)
- Operas
- Daphnis et Chloé (1885)
- Hedda (1898)
- Mudarra (1899)
- L'Absent (1904)
- Les Girondins (1905)
- La Catalane (1907)
- Cléopâtre (1914)
- La Brune et la Blonde (1924)
- Church music
- Messe de Requiem (1928)
- Ballet music
- L'Idole aux yeux verts (1902)
- Fête bretonne (1903)
- Film music
- L'empreinte (1908)
literature
- Friedrich Blume (Ed.): Music in the past and present . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1949–1986.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Le Borne, Fernand |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Leborne, Fernand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer of Belgian origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Charleroi |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 15, 1929 |
| Place of death | Paris |