Louis Lacombe
Louis Trouillon Lacombe (born November 26, 1818 in Bourges , † September 30, 1884 in Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue , Département Manche ) was a French composer .
Life
Lacombe became a piano student of Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann at the Paris Conservatory in 1829 and received the first piano award in 1831. In 1832 he left the institute and went on an art tour through France, Belgium and Germany. The journey ended in Vienna , where in 1834 he studied piano for eight months with Carl Czerny and music theory with Simon Sechter and Ignaz von Seyfried . In 1839 he returned to Paris after further concert tours and now devoted himself more and more to composition.
A piano quintet, a trio and some piano works were his first publications. The dramatic symphonies (with solos and choirs) followed: Manfred (1847) and Arva (1850), a second trio, a great octave etude for piano, numerous other piano works, songs, a lyrical epic of gigantic composition , an opera ( La Madone , Performed at Théâtre-Lyrique in 1861 ), the music for Paulin Niboyet's L'Amour and others. Most famous of his works was Sappho , price cantata of the 1878 World's Fair , which was repeatedly performed in the Théâtre du Châtelet and in the Conservatory.
Lacombe is stylistically close to Berlioz , he often used large ensembles to achieve special effects. His technically flawless compositions lacked personal originality, so that lasting success was denied him.
His second wife (from 1869), Andrée Favel (actually Claudine Duclairfait; born January 17, 1831 in Voisinlieu , Département Oise ; † September 8, 1902 in Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue), was a respected singer who had a remarkable singing school has published. Their common grave is in the Père Lachaise cemetery .
Works
- Philosophy et musique: œuvre posthume . Paris 1896 digitized
Web links
- Louis Lacombe on kulturserver-nrw.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lacombe, Louis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lacombe, Louis Trouillon (full name); Trouillon Lacombe, Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1818 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | at Bourges |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 30, 1884 |
| Place of death | Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, Manche department |