Charles Bordes
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Charles Bordes (b. 12 May1863 at La Roche-Corbon in the French département of Indre-et-Loire, d. 8 November 1909) was a French music teacher and composer.
[edit] Timeline
Bordes studied pianoforte with Antoine François Marmontel and composition with César Franck. He was organist and maître de chapelle at Nogent-sur-Marne from 1887 to 1890. In 1890 he became maître de chapelle at the église Saint-Gervais in Paris, where he created the Saint-Gervais singers choir, and in 1892 organised The Saint-Gervais holy weeks in which mass was accompanied by French or Italian renaissance music.
In 1897 Bordes published Archives de la tradition basque, a ethnomusicological study commissioned by the French minister of public education.
[edit] Schola Cantorum
On the 15 October 1896 the Schola Cantorum was inaugurated. Bordes founded the Schola Cantorum, a society for sacred music, with Vincent D'Indy and Alexandre Guilmant. The Schola Cantorum was responsible for reviving interest in plain-song and the music of Palestrina, Josquin des Prez Victoria and others.
Bordes went on to found a Schola Cantorum in Avignon in 1899, and another in Montpellier in 1905.fr:Charles Bordes (musique)
