Herbert Pepper

Herbert Pepper (* 1912 ; † 2001 ) was a French ethnomusicologist and composer .

Pepper studied at the Conservatoire de Paris until 1941 and married Eliane Barat , who was also a graduate of the Conservatoire. He went to Ubangi-Shari with his wife , where he studied the music of the indigenous population in collaboration with Félix Éboué . He got to know Barthélemy Boganda and set his poem La Renaissance to music as the national anthem of the newly founded Central African Republic . Later he also composed the national anthem of Senegal, Le Lion rouge by Léopold Sédar Senghor .

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• National Anthems of the World - History of anthems