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Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse.
Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse.
Among these pieces, numbering over a hundred, there are études, fantasies, whims, solo concerts, nocturnes of various themes, polkas, mazurkas, berceuses, ballades and révêries. He was a highly acclaimed musician specially for his étude de concerto, Operation 7 and his brilliant fantasias for piano on many theatrical works such as Plaintes de la jeune fille and other transcriptions of lieders by Franz Schubert and other composers.
Alexandre Goria was born in Paris on 21 January 1823.
He was admitted as a student to the Conservatoire de Paris on 15 November 1830 at the age of seven. He later became répétiteur of the classes of competition in the conservatory.
His studies were completed in 1839. Since then he engaged in teaching and became known in the music world by many different kinds of pieces for the piano.
Awarded with the Knight"s Cross of the Order of Charles III by the Queen of Spain, he died in Paris on 6 July 1860.