Albert Cahen d'Anvers (8 January 1846 – 27 February 1903) was a French composer best known for light opera. Life Born in Antwerp to a Belgian-Jewish banking family, Cahen was a pupil of César Franck (composition) and Mme. Szarvady (pianoforte). He enjoyed access to the elite social circles of his day, and made himself known to the musical world with the following compositions: Jean le précurseur, a biblical poem (1874) Le Bois, a comic opera (1880, Paris) Endymion, a mythological poem (1883, Paris) La Belle au bois dormant, a fairy operetta (1886, Geneva) Le Vénitien, a four-act opera (1890, Rouen) Fleur des neiges, ballet (1891) La Femme de Claude, a three-act lyric drama (1896, Paris) He died in La Turbie. Sources External links Musicians from Antwerp 1846 births 1903 deaths 19th-century classical composers French ballet composers French male classical composers French opera composers French operetta composers French people of Jewish descent French Jews Male opera composers 19th-century French male musicians