Adrien Barthe

Pianist, organist and composer. Born: 1828 Died: 1898 Adrien Barthe (1828-1898), a pseudonym for Grat-Norbert Barthe began his music studies thanks to his father who was an organist. Adrien Barthe had piano and composition lessons and eventually became a student of Fernand Leborne at the Paris conservatoire. He became pianist and organist and in 1854 he obtained the first Prix de Rome with his cantata Francesca de…