Alfred Hector Roland (1797 – 1874) was a composer, a poet
and the creator of the music conservatory of Bagnères-de-Bigorre (in the
Hautes-Pyrénées ).
Roland also started the choir of the Chanteurs Montagnards (Singing
Mountaineers). He is the author of many songs considered as classics of
Pyrenean mountain singing.
In 1839, at the Champs-Élysées, they sang for 8000
listeners, including King Louis-Philippe. The group toured Belgium, the Netherlands,
Denmark, Sweden and in 1841 Germany, Prussia, Russia, Warsaw, Austria, Hungary,
the battlefields of the Napoleonic wars. The 1st August 1842, they sang before
the pope in the basilica of St. Mary of the Angels , the mountain Mass in Rome
Alfred Roland.
From 1842 to 1844, the band resumed a new tour in France. In
1845, they are in Marseilles and embark for Egypt. In 1846, in Palestine, they
sang at the Holy Sepulchre the Mass of Rome and the Royal Mass of Jerusalem.
From there, they go to Athens, then to Constantinople where the Sultan received
them.
Finally, this fabulous artistic expedition ends in France
and London in 1855. The troupe's odyssey ends with a deficit of more than
100,000 francs, which is filled by the patrimony of Alfred Rolland and his
copyrights on the property of the many literary and musical works he has
produced. who have known more than two hundred editions.
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