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Oct 04, 1840 Rouen, Normandy, France Died on 16 Aug 1910 (aged 69)
French composer
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About Charles Lenepveu
- Charles-Ferdinand Lenepveu (4 October 1840 – 16 August 1910), was a French composer and teacher.
- Destined for a career as a lawyer, he defied his family and followed a musical career.
- He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, and won France's top musical award, the Prix de Rome in 1867. Much of Lenepveu's career was as a professor at the Conservatoire from 1880.
- He was known as a strict conservative, hostile to musical innovation, as was much of the French musical Establishment of the time.
- He was expected to succeed Théodore Dubois as director of the Conservatoire in 1905, but his chances evaporated when he was implicated in an attempt to rig the results of that year's Prix de Rome in favour of his own pupils.
