- Alphonse Hasselmans
Alphonse Hasselmans (
March 5 1845 –May 19 1912 ) was a Belgian-born Frenchharp ist,composer , andpedagogue .Biography
Alphonse Hasselmans was born in
Liège ,Belgium . He composed several dozen original solos for harp, of which his most famous is a concertétude entitled "La Source" ("The Wellspring"), op. 44). He transcribed numerous works for harp originally written for other instruments by other composers, and edited important collections of études by the earlier 19th-century harpist Robert N. C. Bochsa.As professor of harp at the music conservatories in
Strasbourg andParis until his sudden death in Paris at age 67, Hasselmans trained a generation of the most important French harpists of the 20th century, includingHenriette Renie ,Marcel Tournier ,Carlos Salzedo ,Marcel Grandjany ,Lily Laskine , andPierre Jamet .His daughter, Marguerite Hasselmans (1876-1947), was a concert pianist, who was also the mistress of
Gabriel Fauré for many years.His son, Louis Hasselmans (1878-1957), was a conductor, especially of opera, whose career took him to the United States, working at the
Chicago Civic Opera and theMetropolitan Opera before becoming Professor of Music atLouisiana State University .
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