Alfred Bachelet

Alfred Bachelet (26 February 1864 – 10 February 1944) was a French composer, conductor and teacher.

Biography Born in Paris, Bachelet studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Ernest Guiraud and obtained the second Grand Prix de Rome in 1890 with his cantata Cléopâtre after a text by Fernand Beissier. He was conductor of the choir in 1907, then conductor of the Paris Opera. He served as director of the Nancy Conservatory from 1919 until his death in 1944. He was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1929.

Bachelet died in Nancy on 10 February 1944.

Selected works Chère nuit, lied, 1897 Scemo, opera, 1914 Quand la cloche sonnera (libretto by Yoris d'Hansewick and Pierre de Wattyne ) opera, 1922 Un jardin sur l'Oronte (libretto by Franc-Nohain after Maurice Barrès), opera, 1932 Fantaisie nocturne, ballet Sûryâh, symphonic poem