Bachelet, Alfred
(1864–1944)> COMPOSER
Bachelet, Alfred (26 February 1864, Paris; 10 February 1944, Nancy), composer, studied music at the Paris Conservatoire as a young man, and his cantata Cléopâtre won the Prix de Rome at this institution in 1890. He showed an early interest in composing for the stage, and he attracted the attention of the public for the first time with his lyric drama Scémo , mounted at the Opéra on 6 May 1914. After World War I, M. Bachelet returned to the theatre with two titles. Quand la cloche sonnera was…