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Charles Lenepveu
French composer
- From
- Rouen, France
- Active
- 1840–1910
- Releases
- 0
About
Charles-Ferdinand Lenepveu (4 October 1840 – 16 August 1910), was a French composer and teacher. Destined for a career as a lawyer, he defied his family and followed a musical career. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, and won France's top musical award, the Prix de Rome in 1867.
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Much of Lenepveu's career was as a professor at the Conservatoire from 1880. He was known as a strict conservative, hostile to musical innovation, as was much of the French musical Establishment of the time. He was expected to succeed Théodore Dubois as director of the Conservatoire in 1905, but his chances evaporated when he was implicated in an attempt to rig the results of that year's Prix de Rome in favour of his own pupils.
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Teacher
- Hedwige Chrétien
- Alexis Chauvet
- Marcel Samuel-Rousseau
- Noël Gallon
- André Gailhard
- Aymé Kunc
- André Caplet
- Joseph Boulnois
- Henriette Renié
- Paul Bazelaire
- Marcel Tournier
- Louis Dumas
- Charles d’Ivry
- Bernard Crocé-Spinelli
- Victor Gallois
- Raymond Pech
- Marie Prestat
- Pierre Monteux
- Madeleine Jaeger
- Marthe Grumbach
- Max d'Ollone
- Paul Pierné
- Achille Philip
- Albert Alain
- Abel Decaux
- Paul Paray
- Augustin Savard
- Ambroise Thomas
Identifiers
- MusicBrainz
- f87a6eb9-5ac7-4103-a440-6ebd973aaffd
- ISNI
- 0000000059399854
Data from MusicBrainz, saved 8 Nov 2026. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, covers from the Cover Art Archive and Apple Music.