Schola Cantorum de Paris
The Schola Cantorum de Paris is a private music school in Paris. It was founded in 1894 by Charles Bordes, Alexandre Guilmant and Vincent d'Indy as a counterbalance to the Paris Conservatoire's emphasis on opera.
History
La Schola was founded in 1894 and opened on 15 October 1896 as a rival to the Paris Conservatoire. Alexandre Guilmant, an organist at the Conservatoire, was the director of the Schola before d'Indy took over. D'Indy set the curriculum, which fostered the study of late Baroque and early Classical works, Gregorian chant, and Renaissance polyphony. According to the Oxford Companion to Music, "A solid grounding in technique was encouraged, rather than originality, and the only graduates who could stand comparison with the best Conservatoire students were Magnard, Roussel, Déodat de Séverac, and Pierre de Bréville."[1] The school was originally located in Montparnasse; in 1900 it moved to its present site, a former convent in the Quartier Latin.[2]
Alumni
In addition to those mentioned above, students, not all full-time, have included:
- Joseph Canteloube[3]
- Helen Eugenia Hagan[4]
- Cole Porter (for a few months in 1920)[5]
- Adrien Rougier
- Erik Satie (as a mature student)[6]
- Joaquin Turina[7]
- Edgard Varèse[8]
Teachers
- Isaac Albéniz[9]
- Léon Barzin[10]
- Antoine Geoffroy-Dechaume[11]
- Wanda Landowska[12]
- Jean Langlais[2]
- Olivier Messiaen[13]
- Darius Milhaud[2]
- Albert Roussel[14]
Notes
- ↑ Latham, Alison (ed) "Schola Cantorum", The Oxford Companion to Music, Oxford Music Online, Oxford University Press, retrieved 28 October 2014 (subscription required)
- 1 2 3 "History", La Schola Cantorum, retrieved 28 October 2014
- ↑ Langham Smith, Richard. "Canteloube, Joseph", Grove Music Online, Oxford University Press, retrieved 28 October 2014 (subscription required)
- ↑ Walker-Hill, Helen (2007) From Spirituals to Symphonies: African-American Women Composers and Their Music. Champaign: University of Illinois Press ISBN 9780252074547
- ↑ Shaftel, Matthew. "From Inspiration to Archive: Cole Porter's 'Night and Day'", Journal of Music Theory, Vol. 43, No. 2 (Autumn, 1999), p. 318 (subscription required)
- ↑ Orledge, Robert. "Satie, Erik", Grove Music Online, Oxford University Press, retrieved 28 October 2014 (subscription required)
- ↑ Gómez Amat, Carlos. "Turina, Joaquín", Grove Music Online, Oxford University Press, retrieved 28 October 2014 (subscription required)
- ↑ Griffiths, Paul. "Varèse, Edgard", Grove Music Online, Oxford University Press, retrieved 28 October 2014 (subscription required)
- ↑ Barulich, Frances. "Albéniz, Isaac", Grove Music Online, Oxford University Press, retrieved 28 October 2014 (subscription required)
- ↑ Bowen, José A. "Barzin, Leon", Grove Music Online, Oxford University Press, retrieved 28 October 2014 (subscription required)
- ↑ "Antoine Geoffroy-Dechaume". The Telegraph. 19 May 2000.
- ↑ Salter, Lionel. "Landowska, Wanda", Grove Music Online, Oxford University Press, retrieved 28 October 2014 (subscription required)
- ↑ Griffiths, Paul. . "Messiaen, Olivier", Grove Music Online, Oxford University Press, retrieved 28 October 2014 (subscription required)
- ↑ Labelle, Nicole. "Roussel, Albert", Grove Music Online, Oxford University Press, retrieved 28 October 2014 (subscription required)
External links
Coordinates: 48°50′30″N 02°20′29″E / 48.84167°N 2.34139°E