Alexandre-Étienne Choron
Alexandre-Étienne Choron | |
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Born | 21 October 1771 Caen, France |
Died | 29 June 1834 Paris, France | (aged 62)
Occupation | Musicologist |
Alexandre-Étienne Choron (21 October 1771 – 29 June 1834) was a French
Biography
Choron studied mathematics at the
A professor of mathematics at the
Named director of the Paris Opéra on 18 January 1816, he instituted the reopening of the Paris Conservatory, which had been closed since 1815, under the name of École royale de chant et de déclamation. On 30 March 1817 he was forced to resign the directorship of the Opera, without a pension, as a result of having wanted to make too many radical changes.
In 1817, he founded and directed the Institution royale de musique classique et religieuse. Its influence was considerable. It trained or influenced some of the most important artists of this era, notably the celebrated singers
With the
Choron published numerous musical works. He also left behind his voluminous papers, preserved at the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Works
- 1808: Principes de composition des écoles d’Italie (based on Nicola Sala, teacher at the Pieta dei Turchini conservatory)
- 1810–11, revised 1817: Dictionnaire historique des musiciens, artistes et amateurs, morts ou vivants (with F. Fayolle)
- 1811: Méthode élémentaire de musique et de plain-chant
- 1813: Revised and augmented edition of Traité général des voix et des instruments d'orchestre by L. Francoeur
- 1814–16: translations of theoretical works of Albrechtsberger and F. Azopardi
- 1820: Méthode concertante à 3 parties
- 1820: Méthode de chant
- 1836–39: Manuel complet de musique vocale et instrumentale, ou Encyclopédie musicale (with la Fage)
Bibliography
- Hutchings, Arthur and Hervé Audéon, "Choron, Alexandre(-Etienne)" in Grove Music Online
- Meidhof, Nathalie, Alexandre Étiennes Akkordlehre. Konzepte, Quellen, Verbreitung, Olms, Hildesheim 2016.
- Réty, Hippolyte, Notice historique sur Choron et son École : discours prononcé à l'Académie de Mâcon le 22 novembre 1872, C. Douniol, Paris, 1873, 25 p.
- Simms, Bryan Randolph, Alexandre Choron (1771-1834) as an historian and theorist of music, Ph.D. Diss., Yale University, 1971.