Théodore Ritter

Toussaint Prévost, known under the pseudonym Théodore Ritter (5 April 1840 – 6 April 1886) was a 19th-century French composer and pianist.

Théodore Ritter
Théodore Ritter (drawing by A. Barbé)
Born
Toussaint Prévost

5 April 1840
Nantes
Died6 April 1886(1886-04-06) (aged 46)
Paris
OccupationComposer
Pianist
Spouse(s)Alice Desgranges

Biography

The son of composer Eugène Prévost, he was a student of Hector Berlioz. He began his career as a baritone singer at La Monnaie in Brussels under the name Félix, then learned the piano with Franz Liszt. He quickly became a renowned pianist and began an international career under the name Théodore Ritter.

A member of the "Société des derniers concerts de Beethoven" (1860), he undertook a concert tour in Canada and the US with the violinist Frantz Jehin-Prume and the operatic singer Carlotta Patti in 1869–1870.

Among others, he was the teacher of Isidore Philipp and Samuel Sanford.

Married with the singer Alice Desgranges; his niece Gabrielle Ritter-Ciampi was also famous as a singer.

A chevalier of the Légion d'honneur (1880), he is buried at cimetière du Père-Lachaise (20th division)[1]

He composed numerous pieces for piano and transcriptions, as well as piano versions of L'enfance du Christ and Roméo et Juliette by Berlioz .

Bibliography
  • Émile Maillard, Nantes et le département au XIXe siècle, 1891, (p. 199) ISBN 1274696216
  • Henry Charles Lahee, Famous pianists of today and yesterday, 1901, (p. 335) ISBN 1164071394
  • Georges d'Heylli, Dictionnaire des pseudonymes, 1977, (p. 377-378) ISBN 978-5880613021
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References
  1. His file on the site of the cemetery
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