Albert Cahen

Composer

1846 – 1902

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Who was Albert Cahen?

Albert Cahen d'Anvers was a French composer best known for light opera. He was a pupil of César Franck and Mme. Szarvady. He enjoyed access to the elite social circles of his day, and made himself known to the musical world with the following compositions:

Jean le Précurseur, a Biblical poem

Le Bois, a comic opera

Endymion, a mythological poem

La Belle au Bois Dormant, a fairy operetta

Le Vénitien, a four-act opera

Fleur des Neiges, ballet

La Femme de Claude, a three-act lyric drama

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Born
Jan 8, 1846
Antwerp
Nationality
  • France
Died
Feb 27, 1902
La Turbie

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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