Fernand de La Tombelle
Compositions for: Alto
Interludes pour la messe 'Dominicis Infra Annum'WikipediaAntoine Louis Joseph Gueyrand Fernand Fouant de La Tombelle (3 August 1854 – 13 August 1928) was a French organist and composer.
Born in Paris, Fernand de La Tombelle had piano lessons in his childhood with his mother Louise Gueyraud, a pupil of Sigismund Thalberg and
Franz Liszt. From the age of eighteen he took private organ and harmony lessons with
Alexandre Guilmant. At the Conservatoire de Paris he studied counterpoint, fugue and composition with
Théodore Dubois. For his compositions he was twice awarded the gold medal at the Grand Prix Pleyel.
In the following years he performed as a concert organist throughout France. From 1896 to 1904, he was the first harmony teacher at the Schola Cantorum. Among his students were Louis Boyer, Auguste Leguenant,
Marc de Ranse,
Blanche Selva,
Déodat de Séverac, and Jean Vadon.
In addition to music, La Tombelle, who was interested in many things, was active as a writer and columnist, sculptor and painter, art photographer, music ethnologist and astronomer. His wife Henriette Delacoux de Marivault became known as a writer under the pseudonym Camille Bruno.