Ferdinand Manuel Martin Louis Barthélemy de Craywinckel (24 August 1820 – after 1888)[1] was a Spanish-French conductor and composer. He was born in Madrid into a family of aristocratic Belgian descent and moved to Bordeaux at age 5. He studied at the Conservatoire de Bordeaux, studying composition with Bellon, who was a pupil of Anton Reicha. He was maitre de chapelle at St. Bruno, where he lived after 1825. He wrote many masses and other church works which are of high calibre.[2] He taught music at two schools in Bordeaux. He died in Bordeaux in 1880.[3]
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- ^ Baker, Theodore; Slonimsky, Nicolas; Remy, Alfred (1919). Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians. G. Schirmer. p. 180.
- ^ Feret, Edouard (1889). Statistique générale: topographique, scientifique, administrative, industrielle, commerciale, agricole, historique, archéologique et biographique du département de la Gironde (in French). Féret et fils. p. 158. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
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