Romain Bussine, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Romain Bussine

French opera singer

Date of Birth: 04-Nov-1830

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 20-Dec-1899

Profession: composer, poet, singer, opera singer, voice teacher, musicologist, music pedagogue

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Romain Bussine (1830–1899) was a French poet, baritone, and voice teacher who lived during the 19th century. In 1871, together with Camille Saint-Saëns and Henri Duparc, he founded the Société Nationale de Musique as a forum for promoting contemporary French chamber and orchestral music.
Later an argument over the performance of foreign works led to Saint-Saëns and Bussine resigning the joint presidency of the Société Nationale in 1886. Gabriel Fauré set one of his poems as Après un rêve ("After A Dream"), op.
7, No.
1 (composed in 1877, published in 1878).
The poem, based on an Italian poem titled "Levati sol che la luna è levata," is a soliloquy about a rapturous dream of a passionate encounter to which the dreamer longs to return, even though the dream is a lie.
Another setting by Fauré of a poem by Bussine is Sérénade Toscane; the poem is a fairly free version of a slightly sardonic Tuscan serenade. Bussine worked for many years as a voice teacher at the Paris Conservatory.
A baritone, he occasionally gave recitals and performed in concerts in Paris; although he was not a prolific performer.
He notably sang the role of the High Priest in the first hearing of the second act of Saint-Saëns's Samson and Delilah in a private performance in 1870.
Among his notable pupils were composers Guillaume Couture and Achille Fortier.
He died in Paris.