Marie Emmanuel Augustin Savard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Marie Emmanuel Augustin Savard

French composer

Date of Birth: 15-May-1861

Place of Birth: 5th arrondissement of Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 06-Dec-1942

Profession: composer, teacher, conductor

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Marie Emmanuel Augustin Savard (15 May 1861, Paris – 6 December 1942, Lyons) was a French composer. He was the son of Marie Gabriel Augustin Savard.
He studied with Jules Massenet at the Conservatoire de Paris and in 1886, he won first prize in the Prix de Rome for an oratorio entitled La Vision de Saül.An opera, La Forêt (légende musicale en 2 actes), with a libretto by Laurent Tailhade (1854-1919) was published in 1910 (Enoch et cie., Paris).
The music uses modal and whole-tone scales, as well as a great deal of chromaticism.From 1902 until his retirement in 1921, he directed the Lyon Conservatory.