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Charles-Victor Sieg (8 August 1837 – 6 April 1899) was a French composer and organist. He won the 1864 Prix de Rome.
Life and career
Sieg was born in Turckheim, a small town in the Alsace region of France. His father, Constant Sieg (1807 – 1891), was a composer and the organist of the Church of Saint-Martin in Colmar.[1] Sieg studied first under his father and then at the Conservatoire de Paris under François Benoist (organ) and Ambroise Thomas (composition). He won the conservatory's First Prize in organ in 1863. In 1864 he won the Prix de Rome.
He later published several piano pieces including Trois Impromptus, Tarentelle and Caprice-Valse. After he returned from Rome where he had worked on composing an opéra-comique, he took up a post in Paris as organist at the church of Notre-Dame de Clignancourt and devoted himself to teaching. He also served as the organist of the Church of Saint-Merri and as the singing inspector for Paris city schools. Sieg died in Colmar in 1899 at the age of 61.[2][3][4] Rue Victor Sieg, a street in Truckheim, is named in his honour.[5]
References
- ^ Waltz, André (1902). Bibliographie de la ville de Colmar, p. 202. J.B. Jung & Cie. (in French)
- ^ Pougin, Arthur (16 April 1899). "Nécrologie", Le Ménestrel, p. 128 (in French)
- ^ Bisson, Alexandre; Lajarte, Théodore; Baudouin, Georges (1884). "Sieg (Charles-Victor)". Petite encyclopédie musicale, Vol. 2, , p. 333. A. Hennuyer (in French)
- ^ Gazzetta Musicale di Milano: 1866-1902, Volume 5, p. 1647 (republished by NISC in 2008) (in Italian)
- ^ Billich, André (1975). Histoire d'une ancienne ville impériale: Turckheim, pp. 83 and 171. Éditions Alsatia (in French)
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