Membrée, Edmond

Membrée, Edmond (14 November 1820, Valenciennes; 10 September 1882, Château Damont), composer, had his first music lessons in his native city and received a municipal scholarship to continue his studies in Paris. Accepted into the Conservatoire, he became a pupil of Zimmerman and Alkan for piano, of Fourlen for harmony, and of Michel Carafa for composition. He taught for a while after leaving school and became well known quite suddenly because of his popular song, “Page, écuyer, capitaine,”…