Henry Février
Illustration — Henry Février Henry Février (2 October 18756 July 1957) was a French composer.
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Henry Février
Georges Rochegrosse · This file comes from Gallica Digital Library and is available under the digital ID btv1b53187323p/f1 · Public domain
- Born
- 1875 · 8th arrondissement of Paris.
- Died
- 1957 · Paris.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- composer
- Fields
- opera
- Movements
- classical music
- Education
- Conservatoire de Paris
- Teachers
- Raoul de Pugno · Jules Massenet · Gabriel Fauré · André Messager
- Known for
- Monna Vanna · Gismonda
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Henry Février Henry Février (2 October 18756 July 1957) was a French composer.
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Henry Février studied at Conservatoire de Paris. Training under Raoul de Pugno, Jules Massenet and Gabriel Fauré is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera. Works named in the authority record are Monna Vanna and Gismonda.
Henry Février was born in Paris, France, on 2 October 1875, the son of architect Jules Février. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, where his teachers included Jules Massenet and Gabriel Fauré. He also took private lessons with André Messager. His first compositions were chamber music, but he is chiefly known for his operas and operettas, among which are Le Roi aveugle (1906), Monna Vanna (1909), Carmosine (1913), Gismonda (Chicago 1919), La Damnation de Blanchefleur (1920), L'Ile désenchantée (1925), Oletta (1927), La Femme nue (1929) and Sylvette (1932). His works also include incidental music for plays, including Agnès, dame galante (1912) and Aphrodite (1914). Février ceased composing music in the 1940s. He died on 6 July 1957. He is father of the pianist Jacques Février.
Poster for the Paris première of Gismonda by Henry Février, with lyrics by Henri Cain and Louis Payen after Victorien Sardou. Lithograph, 0.920 x 0.690 m, printed by Imp. Maquet (Paris)
Georges Rochegrosse / Adam Cuerden · This file comes from Gallica Digital Library and is available under the digital ID btv1b53187323p/f1
Poster for the Paris première of Gismonda by Henry Février, with lyrics by Henri Cain and Louis Payen after Victorien Sardou. Lithograph, 0.920 x 0.690 m, printed by Imp. Maquet (Paris)
Georges Rochegrosse / Adam Cuerden · This file comes from Gallica Digital Library and is available under the digital ID btv1b53187323p/f1
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