Bordes, Charles (Marie Anne)
Bordes, Charles (Marie Anne)
Bordes, Charles (Marie Anne), French choral conductor; b. Roche-Corbon, near Vouvray-sur-Loire, May 12, 1863; d. Toulon, Nov. 8, 1909. He studied piano with Marmontel and composition with César Franck. In 1894, in association with Guilmant and Vincent d’Indy, he organized the Schola Cantorum in Paris, and in subsequent years organized chapters of it in Avignon and Montpellier. He made numerous tours with his choral group. In 1889 he was commissioned by the French government to make a study of Basque folk songs; he publ. 100 of these in Archives de la tradition basque. He also wrote several pieces based on Basque motifs, among them Suite basque for Flute and String Quartet (1888) and Rapsodie basque for Piano and Orch. (1890). He also ed. several anthologies of early French music, publ. by the Schola Cantorum.
Bibliography
C. B., In memoriam (Paris, Schola Cantorum, 1909); P. Alibert, C. B. à Maguelonne (Paris, 1926); P. Dowd, C. B. and the Schola Cantorum of Paris (diss., Catholic Univ. of America, Washington, D.C., 1969).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire