Charles Bordes

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  • Born: 12th May 1863
  • Died: 8th November 1909
  • Birthplace: La Roche-Corbon, Indre-et-Loire, France

Charles Bordes was a French music teacher and composer. Bordes was born in La Roche-Corbon, Indre-et-Loire. He studied pianoforte with Antoine François Marmontel and composition with César Franck. He was organist and Maître de chapelle at Nogent-sur-Marne from 1887 to 1890. In 1890 he became maître de chapelle at the Église Saint-Gervais in Paris, where he created the Saint-Gervais Singers Choir, and in 1892 organised The Saint-Gervais Holy Weeks in which Mass was accompanied by French or Italian renaissance music. In 1897 Bordes published Archives de la tradition basque, an ethnomusicological study commissioned by the French minister of public education.