Abel Decaux
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French organist and composer
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1869-02-11
- Active to
- 1943-03-19
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 433
- Total plays
- 3,165
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Abel Decaux (February 11, 1869 – March 19, 1943) was a French organist and composer. He studied organ with Charles Widor and Alexandre Guilmant and composition with Jules Massenet. Decaux left only one known composition Clairs de lune. It is remarkably modern for its time and anticipated some of the work of Claude Debussy and Arnold Schoenberg. Clairs de lune was recorded in 1996 by American pianist Frederic Chiu on a Harmonia Mundi disc with Ravel's <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Abel+Deca
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Abel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Auffay
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- music educator
- Educated at
- Conservatoire de Paris
- Employer
- Eastman School of Music
- Languages spoken
- French
- Student of
- Théodore Dubois
- Genre
- classical music
- Movement
- classical music
- Instrument
- organ
- Image
- AMDecaux01.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1869-02-11
- date of death
- 1943-03-19
- name in native language
- Abel Decaux
- Commons category
- Abel Decaux
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