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Hahn, Reynaldo
Died: 1947 AD, at 71 years of age.
Nationality: Venezuelan
Categories: Composers, Musicians
1875 - Reynaldo Hahn, born on the 9th of August in Caracas, Venezuela. He was a naturalised French composer, conductor, music critic and diarist. Best known as a composer of songs, he wrote in the French classical tradition of the mélodie.
1888 - Composed Si me vers avaient des ailes to a poem by Victor Hugo; it was an instant success when published by Le Figaro.
1894 - By the age of nineteen, he had written many songs about love; however, his worldly sophistication masked shyness about his own personal feelings.
1896 - One of those projects, Portraits de peintres, is a work consisting of spoken text with piano accompaniment.
1920 - 1930 - He also served, as general manager of the Cannes Casino opera house.
1945 - Forced to leave Paris during the Nazi occupation, he returned at the end of the war to fulfill his appointment as director of the Paris Opéra.
1947 - Died on the 28th of January in Paris, France.
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On Singers and Singing by Reynaldo Hahn (Hardcover - Mar 1, 2003) As composer, critic, and music director of the Paris Opera, Reynaldo Hahn embodied the refined taste of La Belle Epoque. This book is a series of nine lectures Hahn delivered in 1913 and 1914,... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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