Charles Bordes
Compositions for: Flute
WikipediaCharles Bordes (12 May 1863 – 8 November 1909) was a French music teacher and composer.
Bordes was born in La Roche-Corbon, Indre-et-Loire. He studied pianoforte with
Antoine François Marmontel and composition with
César Franck. He was organist and Maître de chapelle at Nogent-sur-Marne from 1887 to 1890. In 1890 he became maître de chapelle at the Église Saint-Gervais in Paris, where he created the Saint-Gervais Singers Choir, and in 1892 organised The Saint-Gervais Holy Weeks in which Mass was accompanied by French or Italian renaissance music.
In 1897 Bordes published Archives de la tradition basque, an ethnomusicological study commissioned by the French minister of public education.
Bordes went on to found a Schola Cantorum in Avignon in 1899, and another in Montpellier in 1905. He remained actively involved with the original Schola Cantorum until his early death at Toulon.
Bordes' brother married the pianist Marie-Léontine Pène, who was known as Bordes-Pène thereafter.