Félicien-César David

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Félicien David, 1858, Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Félicien David in a Brazilian setting (a reference to his 1851 opéra comique, La perle du Brésil) surrounded by comic allusions to several of his of major works, from an undated theatrical illustration (ca. 1860). Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Félicien-César David, b. April 13, 1810 in Caudenet (Vaucluse – d. August 29, 1876 in La Pecq (now: Saint-Germain-en-Laye) (Yvelines), was a French composer.

[edit] Biography

Félicien David wrote a prodigious number of highly original musical compositions in many forms, including symphonies, tone poems, opéras comiques, choruses, religious music, piano compositions, chamber music, and vocal works. Le Désert, an oratorio, achieved an instant and complete triumph at its premiere in 1844.

David also was an author. In his youth he was an ardent disciple of Claude Henri de Rouvroy, the French utopian socialist thinker and founder of the Saint-Simon sect.

[edit] References

David, Félicien-César, 1810-1876 Biography and list of compositions from Musicology.org (in French).

[edit] External links

• David's Piano Trio in E-flat Major Score and Parts from Sibley Music Library Digital Scores Collection
• David Piano Trio No.3 in c minor, sound-bites, discussion of work, short biography and sheet music

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