Name Albert Lavignac | Role Music composer | |
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Died May 28, 1916, Paris, France Books Music and Musicians, The music dramas of Richard, Musical education, The Music Dramas of Richard, Le voyage artistique a Bayreuth Similar People Antoine Francois Marmontel, Ernest Guiraud, Vincent d'Indy, Theodore Dubois, Gabriel Pierne | ||
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Alexandre Jean Albert Lavignac (21 January 1846 – 28 May 1916) was a French music scholar, known for his essays on theory, and a minor composer.
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- 12 pianists at 1 piano albert lavignac sischka galop marche 12
- Galop marche by albert lavignac 1 piano 8 hands in d major
- Biography
- Selected works
- References
Galop marche by albert lavignac 1 piano 8 hands in d major
Biography
Lavignac was born in Paris and studied with Antoine François Marmontel, François Benoist and Ambroise Thomas at the Conservatoire de Paris, where later he taught harmony. Among his pupils were Henri Casadesus, Claude Debussy, Vincent d'Indy, Amédée Gastoué, Philipp Jarnach, Henri O'Kelly, Gabriel Pierné, and Florent Schmitt. See: List of music students by teacher: K to M#Albert Lavignac.
In March 1864, at the age of eighteen, he conducted from the harmonium the private premiere of Gioachino Rossini's Petite messe solennelle.
His condensed work, La Musique et les Musiciens, an overview of musical grammar and materials, continued to be reprinted years after his death. In it he characterised the particular characteristics of instruments and of each key, somewhat in the way Berlioz and Gevaert (Traité d'orchestration, Gand, 1863, p. 189) had done:
Major keys:
Minor keys:
His more popularized works discussed the music dramas of Richard Wagner, summarised in Le Voyage artistique à Bayreuth.
Selected works
Lavignac edited the compendious Encyclopédie de la Musique.