Albert Cahen
Albert Cahen d'Anvers was a French composer best known for light opera.
Life
Born in Antwerp to a Belgian-Jewish banking family, Cahen was a pupil of César Franck and Mme. Szarvady. He enjoyed access to the elite social circles of his day, and made himself known to the musical world with the following compositions:Jean le précurseur, a biblical poem Le Bois, a comic opera Endymion, a mythological poem La Belle au bois dormant, a fairy operetta Le Vénitien, a four-act opera Fleur des neiges, ballet La Femme de Claude, a three-act lyric dramaHe died in La Turbie.