About Ernest Cahen
Lived 1828 – 1893 (aged 65). Ernest Cahen was a French composer.
Ernest Cahen (18 August 1828, Paris – 8 November 1893, Paris) was a 19th-century French pianist, organist, music teacher and composer.
Life After studying at the Conservatoire de Paris, in 1849 Cahen won the second Grand Prix de Rome for composition (the first Grand Prix wasn't awarded that year). He worked at the Merklin organ of the Grand Synagogue of Paris and at the Cavaillé-Coll organ of the Synagogue de Nazareth.
Cahen composed several operettas, including Le Calfat (1858) and Le Souper de Mezzelin (1859), presented at the Théâtre des Folies-Nouvelles in Paris.
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Who was Ernest Cahen?
French composer (1828–1893)
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Ernest Cahen was born on 18 August 1828 in Paris.
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Ernest Cahen died on 8 November 1893 in Paris.
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Ernest Cahen was a composer.
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Ernest Cahen was French.
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