Louis Brisset
Louis Brisset (born August 25, 1872 in Constantine (Algeria) , † April 26, 1939 in Nantes ) was a French composer .
Life
Brisset grew up in Nantes and attended the city's conservatory. He later moved to the Conservatoire de Paris . Here he studied organ with Charles-Marie Widor and counterpoint and composition with Charles Lenepveu . In the competition for the Prix de Rome in 1899 he received an honorable mention for the cantata Callirhoé .
He has also attended the Schola Cantorum since it was founded by Charles Bordes , Alexandre Guilmant and Vincent d'Indy . His friendship with the pianist Alfred Cortot and with Paul Ladmirault , who later became the director of the Nantes Conservatory, dates from this time .
For some time he directed the Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois and in 1916 succeeded Paul Maufret as director of the Schola Cantorum in Pau. After the death of Henri Weingartner in 1922 he became director of the Nantes Conservatory; he held the position until retirement in 1937.
Brisset composed songs, a. a. based on texts by Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam , Théophile Gautier , Théodore de Banville , Maurice Maeterlinck and Paul Bourget , chamber music ( Allegretto scherzando for violin and piano) and the opera Altaïr . He published two volumes of piano works and arranged Barnesian and Breton folk songs.
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| SURNAME | Brisset, Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Constantine (Algeria) |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 26, 1939 |
| Place of death | Nantes |