Joseph-Ermend Bonnal, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French organist, teacher and composer
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Place of Birth: Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
About Joseph-Ermend Bonnal
- Joseph-Ermend Bonnal (1 July 1880 – 14 August 1944); also Ermend-Bonnal, alias Guy Marylis) was a French composer and organist. Ermend-Bonnal received initial musical instruction from his father, a violinist.
- He then studied piano at the Conservatoire de Paris under Charles-Wilfrid de Bériot, harmony under Antoine Taudou, composition under Gabriel Fauré and organ under Alexandre Guilmant and Louis Vierne.
- He also assisted Charles-Marie Widor at Saint-Sulpice, Albert PĂ©rilhou at Saint-SĂ©verin and Charles Tournemire at the Basilica of St.
- Clotilde. In 1901, Ermend-Bonnal was appointed Organist at Saint-MĂ©dard, and subsequently at Notre Dame in Boulogne-sur-Seine.
- In 1920, he was offered a professorship in organ at the University of Strasbourg.
- However, he decided instead to accept a position as director of the Bayonne Conservatory, which he held until 1941.
- His most famous student was the composer Maurice Ohana.
- In 1942, he succeeded his teacher Tournemire at the Cavaillé-Coll Organ at Basilica of St.
- Clotilde. The focus of Ermend-Bonnal's musical output is organ music (Paysages Euskariens, 1930; Media Vita, organ symphony, 1932).
- However, he also wrote in all other musical genres, ranging from children's pieces for piano to symphonies.
- Of his chamber music, two string quartets and a string trio especially deserve mention.
- He also wrote Ragtimes, One Steps and Tangos under the pseudonym Guy Marylis. Ermend-Bonnal had six Children.
- Children that are still living today are Marylis Raoul-Duval, the eldest; Mayette Bonnal, and Francoise Bonnal, the youngest.
- Palay, Rataboul are some of the successors today.
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