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Place of Birth: Château-Gontier, Pays de la Loire, France
About Alexis Roger
- Alexis-André Roger (11 June 1814 – 1846) was a French composer. Born in Château-Gontier, in 1828 Roger was admitted to study at the Conservatoire de Paris.
- He studied harmony with Victor Dourlen, counterpoint with Anton Reicha, piano with Pierre Zimmermann and organ with François Benoist.
- His composition teachers were Jean-François Lesueur and Ferdinando Paër. After a commendatory mention in 1838, he won the Premier Grand Prix in 1842 with the cantata La Reine flore in the competition for the Prix de Rome.
- At the beginning of 1843 he began his two-year stay at the Villa Medici in Rome, which was associated with the prize.
- This was followed by a trip to Vienna and to Germany, where he died in 1846 at the age of thirty-two. Only one violin textbook (Grande méthode de violon) which was published in Paris in 1830, has survived of his works.
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