Wormser, André Alphonse Toussaint
(1851–1926)
Wormser, André Alphonse Toussaint (1 November 1851, Paris; 4 November 1926, Paris) showed a lively interest in music as a child, and he was sent to the Conservatoire in his native Paris to study piano with Antoine Marmontel and composition with François Emmanuel Bazin . His cantata entitled Clytemnestre won the Prix de Rome at the Conservatoire in 1875, but it was not until 1890 that he produced his first theatrical success, L’Enfant prodigue . He had only one work booked into the Opéra…