Alphonse Hasselmans
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2 Romances sans paroles, Opp.41–423 Petites bluettes, Op.283 Petites pièces faciles pour la harpeA
Au monastère, Op.29Aubade, Op.30B
BalladeBarcarolle pour la harpe, Op.7Berceuse pour harpe, Op.2C
Chanson de Mai, Op.40Chasse, Op.36Confidence, Op.24Conte de Noël, Op.33E
Etude, Op.37F
Feuilles d'automne, Opp.45-47Fileuse, Op.27Follets, Op.48G
Gitana, Op.21Gnomes, Op.49Guitare, Op.50L
La source, Op.44Lamento, Op.23M
Mazurka, Op.31Menuet, Op.34N
Nocturne, Op.43O
Orientale, Op.38P
PatrouillePetite berceuse pour harpePetite valse, Op.25Prélude, Op.51Prélude, Op.52Prélude, Op.53Prière, Op.22R
Rêverie, Op.26RomanceS
Sérénade pour harpe, Op.5V
Valse de concert, Op.4É
Élégie pour la harpe, Op.54WikipediaAlphonse Hasselmans (5 March 1845 – 19 May 1912) was a Belgium-born French harpist, composer, and pedagogue.
Hasselmans was born in Liège, Belgium. He studied initially at the Conservatory in Strasbourg, which was led since 1854 by his father Joseph Hasselmans (1814–1902). He continued his studies with Gottlieb Krüger (1824–1895) in Stuttgart and with Ange-Conrad Prumier (1820–1884) in Paris. He began his performing career in the orchestra of the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels. A series of eight solo concerts in Paris in 1877 resulted in contracts for performances as a soloist with several Paris orchestras.
At the death of Prumier in 1884, Hasselsmans succeeded him as professor of harp at the Conservatoire de Paris where he had Caroline Luigini as assistant, a position he held until his sudden death in Paris at age 67. Hasselmans trained a generation of the most important French harpists of the 20th century, including
Henriette Renié,
Marcel Tournier,
Carlos Salzedo,
Marcel Grandjany, Lily Laskine, and Pierre Jamet.See: List of music students by teacher: G to J#Alphonse Hasselmans. He became a French citizen in 1903.
Hasselmans' daughter, Marguerite Hasselmans (1876–1947), was a concert pianist; she was also the mistress of
Gabriel Fauré for many years. His son, Louis Hasselmans (1878–1957), was a conductor, especially of opera, whose career took him to the United States, working at the Chicago Civic Opera and the Metropolitan Opera before becoming Professor of Music at Louisiana State University.
Hasselmans composed several dozen original solos for harp, of which his most famous is a concert étude entitled La Source (The Wellspring), Op. 44. He transcribed numerous works for harp originally written for other instruments by other composers, and edited important collections of studies by the earlier 19th-century harpist
Nicolas-Charles Bochsa.