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Achille Campisiano

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Achille Domenico Campisiano (12 November 1837 – 17 April 1908) was an Italian-born French pianist and composer. Also known under the pseudonym Achille de Campisiano, he composed opéras comiques, operettas and opéras bouffes. Biography Born in Naro, in the province of Agrigento, Sicily, he was the son of Salvatore Campisiano, a jeweller, and Maria Carolina Rochia from a family of Sicilian origin who lived in Marseille. It was in Marseille that Achille Campisiano received his first tuition in musical composition, between 1850 and 1857. In 1866 he was hired by the Café de la Renaissance in Montargis. Around 1867 Campisiano replaced a Monsieur Batifort at the Cheval-Blanc, pianist and composer for the Érard concerts, around 1893. Campisiano directed comic operas and operettas for touring companies before becoming director of the Théâtre Déjazet around 1885, where he resumed the vaudeville tradition that had once made the theatre’s fortune. He attached importance to the quality of the music and entrusted parts of the production to Léon Schlesinger, Isaac Strauss’s grandson. He died in Paris aged 70 and is buried in the cemetery at Donzy. Selected works Achille de Campisiano wrote more t

Achille Fortier

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Achille Fortier (23 October 1864 – 19 August 1939) was a Canadian composer and music educator. His compositional output includes a modest amount of choral and chamber works, several songs and motets, and a small amount of symphonic music. A considerable portion of his compositions are religious in nature. Much of his work remains unpublished and some of his music is now lost as it was destroyed by a fire. The Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec holds more than 30 of his original scores in its collection. Life Born in Saint-Clet, Canada East, Fortier received his initial musical training at the Petit Séminaire de Saint-Thérèse just outside Montreal where he was a pupil of Father Sauvé. He then pursued further studies with Guillaume Couture and Dominique Ducharme in Montreal. In 1885 Fortier went to France where he studied for the next five years. Among his teachers there were André Gedalge and Ernest Guiraud (music composition). In 1889 he attended the Conservatoire de Paris, the first Canadian to be admitted as a regular student. In 1890 Fortier returned to Canada to join the teaching staff at the Institut Nazareth in Montreal where he was an instructor for classes in cou

Achille Longo

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Achille Longo (28 March 1900 – 28 May 1954) was an Italian composer and music teacher. Biography Achille (junior), son of Alessandro and Luisa Todisco, was born in Naples on 28 March 1900. He was a pupil first of his father, and then of A. Savasta at the Naples Conservatory, where he graduated in piano in 1918 and in organ and composition in 1920. He taught harmony and counterpoint at the same conservatory from 1926 to 1930; from 1930 to 1934, he taught harmony and counterpoint at the Parma Conservatory, where, among others, F. Margola was his pupil. In 1934, he returned to the conservatory in Naples, first as a teacher of counterpoint and fugue, and then, from 1941 until his death, of composition. The famous pianist Aldo Ciccolini studied composition with him in Naples. Achille Longo, along with Beniamino Cesi, Sigismund Thalberg, Alessandro Longo and Vincenzo Vitale, is considered one of the most important Italian piano teachers of the 20th century, and contributed to creating what is considered today the ‘Neapolitan piano school’. Compositions The following were used in films, orchestras, and also symphonic music. Vocal music * Canzonette de Poliziano (1930) * Chansons Enfantine

Achille Philip

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Paul Camille Casimir Achille Philip (12 October 1878 - 12 November 1959) was a French organist, composer, conductor and pedagogue. A prolific performer, he occupied numerous posts as titular organist at various important churches throughout France, and taught at the Schola Cantorum in Paris. Philip also co-founded the Quatuor français along with his first wife, Marthe Legrand. Biography Born in Arles, Provence on 12 October 1878, Philip entered the Conservatory of Marseille at the age of nine. There, he won first prizes for solfeggio in 1894, piano in 1896, and harmony in 1898. In October 1898, he entered the Conservatory of Paris to study organ with Alexandre Guilmant and composition with Charles Lenepveu. Philip won first prize in counterpoint and fugue in 1904. From 1904 to 1913 Philip served as organist of the choir organ at La Madeleine in Paris. From 1904 to 1950 he was professor of organ and harmony at the Schola Cantorum. Philip also held the position of titular organist at the following churches: *Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas (1913-1928); * Saint-Léon (1928-1949); * Saint-François-Xavier (1941-1946, from thereon succeeded by Gaston Litaize); *Val-de-Grâce (1913-1950) At Val-d

Achille Simonetti

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Achille Simonetti (12 June 1857 – 19 November 1928) was a prominent Italian violinist and composer, mainly resident in England and Ireland. He was mainly known as a chamber musician and teacher. Life Born in Turin on 12 June 1857, Simonetti left his family in Bologna (this can be gleaned from his letter to Mr Hill (of Hills and Sons) written in 1922, ) and completed his studies under Francesco Bianchi, Eugenio Cavallini, Giuseppe Gamba, Charles Dancla (regarded as the last exponent of the classical French school of violin playing), and Camillo Sivori, the last pupil of Niccolo Paganini. Simonetti died aged 71 in London on 19 November 1928. Career Simonetti came to England in 1891, embarking on a career as chamber musician. He became part of the first London Trio, an endeavour which occupied him from 1901 to 1912, along with cellist William Whitehouse and pianist Amina Goodwin. From 1912 to 1919, he was a professor of violin at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, ;Chamber music * Allegretto Romantico in D minor for viola and piano (published 1897) * Andante mélancolique for violin (or cello) and piano * Ballata in C minor for viola and piano (published 1897) * Berceuse for violin and

Achilles Alferaki

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Achilles Nikolayevich Alferaki (; 3 July 1846 – 27 December 1919) was a Russian composer and politician of Greek descent. His brother was Sergei Alphéraky. He served as the mayor of Taganrog from 1880 to 1888. Biography Alferaki was born in Kharkov in the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine), to Nikos and Maria Alferakis. He spent his childhood in Taganrog, present-day Rostov Oblast, in the Alferaki Palace on Catholic Street (now Frunze Street) designed by the architect Andrei Stackenschneider. Alferaki was educated at home before attending the historical and philological faculty at Moscow University. There he also studied music theory. In 1870, he returned to Taganrog due to family matters. In 1873, following the death of Lev Kulchitsky, the governor of Taganrog, Alferaki briefly served as acting governor. Between 1880 and 1888, he served as mayor of Taganrog. He then moved to Saint Petersburg. There, he became the chancellor of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1891 and later the director of the Russian Telegraph Agency. Alferaki died in Saint Petersburg in 1919. One of his family’s descendants was Anna Marly, a Russian-born French singer and songwriter, author of Chant des Par