Adrien de La Fage, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Adrien de La Fage

composer

Date of Birth: 28-Mar-1801

Place of Birth: Paris, ĂŽle-de-France, France

Date of Death: 08-Mar-1862

Profession: composer, musician, musicologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Adrien de La Fage

  • Juste-Adrien-Lenoir de La Fage (28 March 1801 – 8 March 1862) was a French composer and musicologist. La Fage was born in Paris.
  • He became a choirboy at the Saint-Philippe du Roule in 1807 and received his early musical education there.
  • His family initially wanted him to become a Catholic priest and for a time he attended the seminary at the Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet.La Fage eventually entered the Paris Conservatoire where he was a pupil of Alexandre-Étienne Choron and François-Louis Perne in the subjects of harmony, counterpoint, and music history.
  • In 1828 he was awarded a grant by Charles X of France which enabled him to pursue further studies with Giuseppe Baini in Italy.
  • He also spent some time working for the House of Medici in Florence for whom he composed and presented the opera I Creditori at the Villa Medici in 1829.In 1830 La Fage returned to Paris to become the choir master at the Saint-Étienne-du-Mont.
  • He returned to Italy in 1833 where he remained for three years.
  • While in Italy his wife and son died of illness.
  • However, his time in Italy was productive as he wrote Essais de diphtĂ©rographie musicale (published posthumously in 1864), a major work on the history and theory of ancient music.
  • In 1836 he returned to France where he worked as a teacher and musicologist.
  • He made several further trips to Italy, as well as to Germany, England and Spain, during which he studied and copied many manuscripts.
  • He contributed articles to several musical journals and published several more books, of which his Histoire gĂ©nĂ©rale de la musique et de la danse (General history of music and dance) in three volumes was his most important work.
  • He died in Paris.

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