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Prix de Rome

noun

An annual prize awarded by the French government in a competition of painters and artists and sculptors and musicians and architects; the winner in each category receives support for a period of study in Rome.

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"Prix de rome" Quotes from Famous Books

... Boulanger's cantata, "Faust et Helene," given at a concert of the New York Symphony Society at Carnegie Hall, with Julia Claussen as Helene, Craig Campbell as Faust, and Edgar Schofield as Mephisto. (Composed at the age of 19, and won Grand Prix de Rome. Composer ...

— Annals of Music in America - A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events • Henry Charles Lahee

... very much interested in a former pupil of the Conservatoire who took the Grand-Prix de Rome, and has just come back from his four years' musical studies in Rome. As he is more or less a stranger in Paris, I should be very thankful if you would interest yourself for him. He really is a genius; but, as so often happens, ...

— In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875. • L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone

... whither I had travelled on purpose to see it, were an old printed copy of "Don Juan oder der Steinerne Gast"—in a glass case alongside of M. Ingres' century-long-uncleaned fiddle—and a half-page of Mozart's autograph, given to M. Ingres when a student by a Prix de Rome musician. I mentioned this fact to my friends, in a spirit of guileless truthfulness; when, what was my surprise at the story being received with smiling incredulity. "Your paradox," they said, with the benevolent courtesy of their nation, ...

— Hortus Vitae - Essays on the Gardening of Life • Violet Paget, AKA Vernon Lee

... I admire the man who sticks to his fatherland. But, in art there is no such thing as patriotism. As the conservatory of Paris provides, through the "Prix de Rome," for a three years' residence in Italy and other countries for the most promising pupil, so the young American music students should avail themselves of the advantages of Old World civilization, art, and music. There is much to be learned ...

— Great Pianists on Piano Playing • James Francis Cooke