The Schola Cantorum de Paris (schola cantorum being Latin for 'singers' school') is a private conservatory 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
editThe 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]
Notable teachers
editAlumni
editIn addition to those mentioned above, students, not all full-time, have included:
- Joseph Canteloube[9]
- Helen Eugenia Hagan[10] (African American)
- Cole Porter (for a few months in 1920)[11] (Indiana)
- John Jacob Niles[12] (Kentucky)
- Dulce María Serret[citation needed]
- Erik Satie (as a mature student)[13]
- Joaquin Turina[14] (Spain)
- Edgard Varèse[15]
- Theodor Rogalski[16] (Romania)
- Yvonne Rokseth[17]
- Félix Raugel[18]
- Anne Terrier Laffaille[19]
- Congyu Wang[20] (Singapore)
Notes
edit- ^ Latham, Alison (ed) "Schola Cantorum", The Oxford Companion to Music, Oxford Music Online, Oxford University Press, retrieved 28 October 2014 (subscription required)
- ^ a b c "History", La Schola Cantorum, retrieved 28 October 2014
- ^ 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. Archived from the original on 28 January 2015.
- ^ 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)
- ^ 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)
- ^ Pen, Ronald (2010). Wonder as I Wander: The Life of John Jacob Niles. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. Retrieved 28 March 2018
- ^ 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)
- ^ Griffiths, Paul. [1], Grove Music Online, Oxford University Press, retrieved 20 June 2020 (subscription required)
- ^ Schrade, Leo (1949). "Yvonne Rokseth: In Memoriam". Journal of the American Musicological Society. 2 (3): 171–174. doi:10.2307/829719. ISSN 0003-0139. JSTOR 829719.
- ^ Encyclopaedia Universalis
- ^ Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers (Second edition, revised and enlarged ed.). New York. ISBN 0-9617485-2-4. OCLC 16714846.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Congyu Wang [2], Steinway & Sons retrieved 19 December 2022
External links
edit- Schola Cantorum website
- Schola Cantorum de Paris on the French-language Wikipedia