Composers

Albert Lavignac

Piano
Voice
Piano four hands
Organ
Pump organ
Flute
Writings
For beginners
Dance
Lesson
Exercise
Airs
Character piece
Sonatina
Sonata
Berceuse
by popularity
3 Pièces caractéristiques, Op.106 Sonatines, Op.23Berceuse, Op.18Encyclopédie de la musique et dictionnaire du ConservatoireGalop-marche à huit mainsLa musique et les musiciensLe jour de fête, Op.16Leçons de solfège sur cinq clefs, Op.30Leçons de solfège sur toutes les clefs, Op.17Les Gaietés du ConservatoireNocturnePas des Dryades, Op.22Pas des Naïades, Op.21Prélude in C majorSérénade, Op.32Valse de concert sur 'Le bravo'
Wikipedia
Alexandre Jean Albert Lavignac (21 January 1846 – 28 May 1916) was a French music scholar, known for his essays on theory, and a minor composer.
Lavignac was born in Paris and studied with Antoine François Marmontel, François Benoist and Ambroise Thomas at the Conservatoire de Paris, where later he taught harmony. Among his pupils were Henri Casadesus, Claude Debussy, Vincent d'Indy, Amédée Gastoué, Philipp Jarnach, Henri O'Kelly, Gabriel Pierné, Wadia Sabra, Florent Schmitt. See: List of music students by teacher: K to M#Albert Lavignac.
In March 1864, at the age of eighteen, he conducted from the harmonium the private premiere of Gioachino Rossini's Petite messe solennelle.
His condensed work, La Musique et les Musiciens, an overview of musical grammar and materials, continued to be reprinted years after his death. In it he characterised the particular characteristics of instruments and of each key, somewhat in the way Berlioz and Gevaert (Traité d'orchestration, Gand, 1863, p. 189) had done:
Major keys:
Minor keys:
His more popularized works discussed the music dramas of Richard Wagner, summarised in Le Voyage artistique à Bayreuth.
Lavignac edited the compendious Encyclopédie de la Musique.