Albert Bertelin
Illustration — Grave at Père Lachaise Cemetery Albert Bertelin (26 July 1872 – 19 July 1951) was a French composer.
Albert Bertelin
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- Born
- 1872
- Died
- 1951
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Life
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Born in Paris, Bertelin studied at the Conservatoire de Paris where he was a pupil of Théodore Dubois, Raoul Pugno, Charles-Marie Widor and Jules Massenet. In 1902 he received a 2nd prize for composition at the Prix de Rome, alongside Aymé Kunc and Jean Roger-Ducasse. He then taught counterpoint and fugue at the École César Franck. Bertelin composed one symphony, one opera, two Oratorios, one Mass, motets, a cello, a violin and a piano concerto and chamber music works. He also published music reviews and several musicological works and was a member of the examination jury of the Conservatoire de Paris. Bertelin died in Paris in 1951 and was buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery (31st division)
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Works
• Goïtza, Opera • Légende de Loreley for Choir and Orchestra • Choral for Orchestra, 1902 • Sub umbra Crucis, Oratorio, 1917 • In nativitate Domini, Oratorio, 1922 • Sonate en mi mineur for cello and piano, 1933 • Sonate for violin and piano, 1937
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1872
Albert Bertelin was born in 1872.
1951
Albert Bertelin died at Paris.
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• Traité de composition musicale, 4 volumes, 1931–34 • Traité de contrepoint modal et tonal, 1951 • Les Bases de l’harmonie
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