Marie Emmanuel Augustin Savard

Marie Emmanuel Augustin Savard (15 May 1861, Paris – 6 December 1942, Lyons) was a French composer.

He was the son of Marie Gabriel Augustin Savard.^[1] He studied with Jules Massenet at the Conservatoire de Paris and in 1886, he won first prize in the Prix de Rome for an oratorio entitled La Vision de Saül.^[1][2]

An opera, La Forêt (légende musicale en 2 actes), with a libretto by Laurent Tailhade (1854-1919) was published in 1910 (Enoch et cie., Paris).^[3] The music uses modal and whole-tone scales, as well as a great deal of chromaticism.^[2]

References

1. 1 2 Morris Foundation
2. 1 2 Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001)
3. ↑ Open Library

External links

• Free scores by Marie Emmanuel Augustin Savard at the International Music Score Library Project