Jules Bouval

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Jules Bouval (born June 9, 1867 in Toulouse , † February 25, 1911 ) was a French organist and composer.

Bouval studied harmony with Théodore Dubois , composition with Léo Delibes and Jules Massenet , piano with Antoine François Marmontel and organ with César Franck at the Paris Conservatory . In 1893 he received an honorable mention in the competition for the Prix ​​de Rome for the cantata Antigone .

After 1900 Bouval became organist at the Saint-Pierre de Chaillot church . Louis Vierne dedicated the Marche funèbre from the 24 pieces en style libre published in 1913 to him . In addition, Bouval taught harmony at the Conservatoire de Paris, where Georges Migot was one of his students.

From Bouval's compositions, some organ pieces ( L'Office du Matin , L'Office du Soir ) and songs ( Fleur massagère based on a poem by Henri Passerieu , Les nuages ​​based on a poem by Mikhail Jurjewitsch Lermontow in a translation by Alexandre Dumas ) up to the Present listed.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Prix ​​de Rome 1890–1899 , accessed on May 10, 2019.
  2. Entry in the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on May 10, 2019.