Romain Bussine
Romain Bussine (4 November 1830 – 20 December 1899) was a French voice teacher, singer, translator and poet active in the second half of the 19th century.
Career
He was born in
In 1871, together with Camille Saint-Saëns he founded the Société nationale de musique as a forum for promoting contemporary French chamber and orchestral music. In the 1880s a faction within the society successfully pressed for works by foreign composers to be accepted for performance by the society, as a result of which Bussine and Saint-Saëns resigned the joint presidency of the society in 1886.[2]
Bussine translated the words of German and other songs into French, and wrote or translated verses for his contemporaries. He made the French translations of
Gabriel Fauré set one of Bussine's poems as Après un rêve ("After A Dream"), op. 7, No. 1 (composed in 1877, published in 1878). Another setting by Fauré of a poem by Bussine is Sérénade Toscane, a fairly free version of a slightly sardonic Tuscan serenade.[5] Bussine was an occasional composer, writing mélodies to words by Maurice Ordonneau and others.[6]
Bussine died of
References and sources
References
- ^ "Necrologie", Le Monde artiste, 29 October 1899, p. 703
- ^ Cochard, Alain. "150ème anniversaire de la naissance de la Société nationale de musique", Concertclassic.com. Retrieved 13 May 2021
- ^ a b Nouvelles théâtrals", La Fronde, 24 October 1899, p. 4
- ^ Nectoux, p. 86
- ^ Johnson, pp. 20–21 and 23–24
- ^ "Romain Bussine (1830–1899)", Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 15 May 2021
Sources
- Johnson, Graham (2005). Un paysage choisi. London: Hyperion Records. OCLC 60709962.
- Nectoux, Jean-Michel (1984). Gabriel Fauré: His Life Through Letters. London: Boyars. ISBN 978-0-71-452768-0.