Victor Sieg

Victor Sieg
Victor Sieg
Born	Charles-Victor Sieg; 8 August 1837; Turckheim, France
Died	6 April 1899 (aged 61); Colmar, France
Occupations	composer; organist;

Charles-Victor Sieg (8 August 1837 – 6 April 1899) was a French composer and organist. He won the 1864 Prix de Rome for his setting of the dramatic cantata, Ivanhoé.^[1]

Life and career

Sieg was born in Turckheim, a small town in the Alsace region of France. His father, Constant Sieg (1807 – 1891), was a composer and the organist of the Church of Saint-Martin in Colmar.^[2] Sieg studied first under his father and then at the Conservatoire de Paris under François Benoist (organ) and Ambroise Thomas (composition). He won the conservatory's First Prize in organ in 1863, and the following year he won the Prix de Rome for the cantata, Ivanhoé set to a French text by Victor Roussy based on Walter Scott's 1820 novel, Ivanhoe.^[a] The cantata premiered on 18 November 1864 at the Paris Opera with Jean Morère in the title role and was well received.^[4]

Ivanhoé proved to be Sieg's only major composition, although he later published several piano pieces including Trois Impromptus, Tarentelle and Caprice-Valse. After he returned from Rome where he had worked on composing an opéra-comique, he took up a post in Paris as organist at the church of Notre-Dame de Clignancourt and devoted himself to teaching. He also served as the organist of the Church of Saint-Merri and as the singing inspector for Paris city schools. Sieg died in Colmar in 1899 at the age of 61.^[4]^[5]^[6] Rue Victor Sieg, a street in Turckheim, is named in his honour.^[7]

Notes

^ For the final round of Prix de Rome, the competitors were all required to set the same text as a cantata. The competitors hired their own singers for the performances before the jury.^[3]

References

^ Gérard, Yves (2010). "Saint-Saëns and the Prix de Rome: Scandal(s)?". Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921): Music for the Prix de Rome, pp. 17–18. Glossa GCD922210
^ Waltz, André (1902). Bibliographie de la ville de Colmar, p. 202. J.B. Jung & Cie. (in French)
^ Hamer, Laura (2018). Female Composers, Conductors, Performers: Musiciennes of Interwar France, 1919–1939, p. 143. Routledge. ISBN 1315451476
^ ^a ^b Pougin, Arthur (16 April 1899). "Nécrologie", Le Ménestrel, p. 128 (in French)
^ Bisson, Alexandre; Lajarte, Théodore; Baudouin, Georges (1884). "Sieg (Charles-Victor)". Petite encyclopédie musicale, Vol. 2, , p. 333. A. Hennuyer (in French)
^ Gazzetta Musicale di Milano: 1866-1902, Volume 5, p. 1647 (republished by NISC in 2008) (in Italian)
^ Billich, André (1975). Histoire d'une ancienne ville impériale: Turckheim, pp. 83 and 171. Éditions Alsatia (in French)

[4] For the final round of Prix de Rome, the competitors were all required to set the same text as a cantata. The competitors hired their own singers for the performances before the jury.^[3]

[Gerard-1] Gérard, Yves (2010). "Saint-Saëns and the Prix de Rome: Scandal(s)?". Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921): Music for the Prix de Rome, pp. 17–18. Glossa GCD922210

[2] Waltz, André (1902). Bibliographie de la ville de Colmar, p. 202. J.B. Jung & Cie. (in French)

[Hamer-3] Hamer, Laura (2018). Female Composers, Conductors, Performers: Musiciennes of Interwar France, 1919–1939, p. 143. Routledge. ISBN 1315451476

[Pougin-5] Pougin, Arthur (16 April 1899). "Nécrologie", Le Ménestrel, p. 128 (in French)

[6] Bisson, Alexandre; Lajarte, Théodore; Baudouin, Georges (1884). "Sieg (Charles-Victor)". Petite encyclopédie musicale, Vol. 2, , p. 333. A. Hennuyer (in French)

[7] Gazzetta Musicale di Milano: 1866-1902, Volume 5, p. 1647 (republished by NISC in 2008) (in Italian)

[8] Billich, André (1975). Histoire d'une ancienne ville impériale: Turckheim, pp. 83 and 171. Éditions Alsatia (in French)

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