Henri Duvernoy

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Henry Louis Charles Duvernoy (born November 16, 1820 in Paris ; † January 1906 there ) was a French composer, organist and music teacher.

Duvernoy came from a family of musicians. His uncle Frédéric Duvernoy was an important horn player, his father Charles Duvernoy a clarinetist.

Duvernoy entered the Conservatoire de Paris at the age of nine, where he studied with Aimé Leborne , Pierre Zimmermann , Victor Dourlen , Fromental Halévy and François Benoist . In 1843 he won the First Second Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata Le Chevalier enchanté after Claude-Emmanuel de Pastoret - a Premier Grand Prix was not awarded that year.

Duvernoy Solfège has been teaching at the Conservatoire since 1839. In 1848 he took on his own class, which he led until his retirement in 1880. He wrote several musical textbooks, his 25 Leçons de solfège à changements de clefs were used for teaching by both the Conservatoire de Paris and the Conservatories in Brussels and Liège. For his services to music education he was appointed Officier d'Académie and Knight of the Order of the Leopold .

In addition, Duvernoy was active as an organist at various churches in Paris for 41 years. As part of the reform of the Lutheran liturgy, he published the two-volume Nouveau choix de psaumes et de cantiques harmonisés à quatre voix in 1846 . He also composed more than a hundred piano works.

Two of Duvernoy's brothers were also known as musicians: Charles as a singer and Frédéric as a horn player. Charles' sons were the pianist and composer Victor Alphonse Duvernoy and the singer Edmond Duvernoy .

Works

  • 25 Leçons de solfège à changements de clefs , 1857
  • Solfège artistique avec accompagnement de piano , 1860
  • 400 Dictées musicales
  • 600 Dictées musicales , 1882–83
  • École concertante de solfège, 20 études de style et de perfectionnement
  • Leçons manuscrites de solfège , 1906-07
  • Solfège progressif, sans accompagnement
  • 15 vocalises pour voix de soprano ou tenor

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SURNAME Duvernoy, Henri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duvernoy, Henry Louis Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French music teacher, organist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH January 1906
Place of death Paris