Adolphe Blanc
Adolphe Blanc (June 24, 1828 – May 1885) was a French composer of chamber music. He was born in Manosque and began studying violin at age 13 at the Paris Conservatoire, where he studied with Fromental Halévy. Although he wrote a one-act comic opera, Les Deux Billets, which was performed in 1868, Blanc's best work was chamber music in a Romantic Viennese style meant for private performance. This kind of music did not form part of the public Parisian music life, which was centered on opera, so Blanc has largely been overlooked.
His output includes three string trios, four string quartets, seven string quintets in various configurations, fifteen piano trios, piano quartets and quintets, as well as songs, pieces for piano and violin, choral works and some orchestral pieces. He won the Prix Chartier in 1862 and served as conductor at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris from 1855 to 1860. Blanc died in Paris. Today, most of his music isn't well known, though a few pieces have been recorded, perhaps the Septet Op. 40.
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