Henry Kaiser (composer)
Henry-Charles Kaiser (* 1861 ; † after 1920) was a French composer.
Kaiser studied harmony with Émile Durand at the Conservatoire de Paris , counterpoint and composition with Jules Massenet , piano with Georges Mathias and organ with César Franck . He received first prizes in the subjects of harmony and counterpoint (1880) and organ (1884) and a second prize in the piano (1883).
Between 1884 and 1887 he competed four times for the Prix de Rome , where he won the First Second Grand Prix in 1886 with the biblical scene La somne de Saul after Jules Adenis .
Until the beginning of the 1920s, Kaiser was a tutor for Solfège at the Conservatoire de Paris.
Works
- L'Enfant prodigue , lyric scene after Edouard Guinant , 1884
- Endymion , cantata, 1885
- La somne de Saul , biblical scene after Jules Adenis, 1886
- Didon , cantata, 1887
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SURNAME | Kaiser, Henry |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kaiser, Henry-Charles (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1861 |
DATE OF DEATH | after 1920 |