French composer

Florent Schmitt

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French composer
Genres
Awards Received
Commander of the Legion of Honour
Prix de Rome
resident at the Villa Medici
Knight of the Order of Leopold
Commander of the Order of the Crown of Romania
Member of, past and present

Académie des beaux-arts

Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium

Florent Schmitt (French pronunciation: ​[flɔʁã ʃmit]; 28 September 1870 – 17 August 1958) was a French composer. He was part of the group known as Les Apaches. His most famous pieces are La tragédie de Salome and Psaume XLVII (Psalm 47).

He has been described as "one of the most fascinating of France’s lesser-known classical composers".