Christmas for French horn, oboe and organ by Francis Thomé
Reference BVL 31
François Luc Joseph Thomé, known as Francis Thomé, was a pianist and composer born in Port-Louis (Mauritius) on October 18, 1850 and died in Paris on November 16, 1909.
At the Paris Conservatory, he attended the composition class of Jules Duprato and Ambroise Thomas and obtained a second prize in piano, a second prize in harmony and a first prize in fugue. When his studies were completed, he began to devote himself to composition, while teaching. He put in fashion in the salons of the end of the 19th century, the accompanied poetic recitation. He was also known for his operettas. He also composed pieces for piano which, like Simple aveu, were for some extremely popular. He loved poets and enjoyed symphonic adaptations of certain works by Th. Gautier, Sully-Prudhomme, A. Theuriet and Victor Hugo, for example, the ballad: La Fiancée du Timbalier by V. Hugo.
Francis Thomé, who had married a daughter of the great singer Mrs. Anna de Lagrange, was also a music critic. He is buried in the Montmartre cemetery, with his son Georges Thomé, prefect. The monument is the work of Paul Landowski and was inaugurated on May 31, 1911.
