Music TheoryPrint

CH

Charles Manry

Charles Casimir Manry (8 February 1823 – 18 January 1866) was a French composer and choral conductor. Life Charles Manry was the son of Jean Manry, a physician at the hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris and

Charles Casimir Manry (8 February 1823 – 18 January 1866) was a French composer and choral conductor. Life Charles Manry was the son of Jean Manry, a physician at the hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris and a member of the Académie de médecine. He first studied law and took his legal argument but his fortune enabled him to indulge in his penchant for music. He then studied harmony and counterpoint with Antoine Elwart. Music He had his first Mass for three voices with organ accompaniment performed 1 November 1844 at Église Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas. He later had several pieces of sacred music played in Parisian churches: * 1852: Mass for four men voices without accompaniment, given at Saint-Philippe-du-Roule, Easter, * 1854: Les Deux Épagneuls, opéra comique in one act and free verse, text by Édouard Fournier, presented at Néo-Thermes, 19 December * 1855: Mass for three voices with organ and string instruments accompaniment, given in the same church for Christmas, * 1860: Mass with full orchestra with soloists and chorus, played at Saint-Roch 1 May, * Second Mass for three voices with organ accompaniment, * Te Deum four solo voices and choirs, * Eight motets for three voices with or withou

Era
Romantic
Lived
1823–1866
From
France
Born in
former 2nd arrondissement of Paris · died Boulogne-Billancourt
Known as
composer, choir director
Genres
opera

Contemporaries

Composers of the same nationality whose working lives overlapped — computed across all 11,984 dated composers in this library, not taken from any single article.