Paul Joseph Guillaume Hillemacher

Paul Joseph Guillaume Hillemacher was a French composer and pianist.

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Paul Joseph Guillaume Hillemacher, a pianist and composer, was born in Paris in 1852. He studied at the Conservatoire in M. Bazin’s class, where he earned a second prize for harmony and accompaniment in 1870, and a first accessit for fugue in 1872, according to Fétis’s Biographie universelle des musiciens (1880). The following year, after securing a second prize for fugue, he was awarded the second prize for musical composition. Though two subsequent competitions were not favorable, Hillemacher ultimately won the first Grand Prix de Rome in 1876 for his cantata Judith, with text by Paul Alexandre (a pseudonym for Paul Delair); the piano and vocal score of this cantata was published by M. Lemoine. In 1876, a symphonic piece by Hillemacher was performed at the Concerts modernes (Fétis, 1880). He also collaborated with his brother, Lucien, on the comic opera Saint-Mégrin, which premiered successfully in Brussels in 1886, noted for its “especially good” instrumentation, according to the Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians (1890). The “Hillemacher frères” were recognized in Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1908) as among those who produced songs of “real distinction and interest” in the younger generation of French song-writers.