biography
| name: |
Chausson, Amédee Ernest
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pronunciation:
[shohsõ]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1855–99)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Paris, France. From a very cultivated artistic background, he wavered between painting and literature, became a lawyer in 1877, but then devoted himself to composition. A pupil of Massenet at the Conservatoire, he was influenced by Franck, producing Trio pour Piano op.3 and the opera Viviane (1883). When secretary of the Société Nationale de Musique (1886) he composed Poème de l'Amour et de la Mer, the opera Roi Arthus, and his famous Symphonie. After the death of his father, he was influenced by the pessimism of Russian novels, producing the cycle of Serres Chaudes from Maeterlinck and the Poème pour violon et orchestre (1896) from an argument of Tourgeniev. He returned to chamber music with a quartet for strings, unfinished because of his death in a cycling accident. |
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