Henri Constant Gabriel Pierne (16 August 1863?17 July 1937) was a French composer , conductor , and organist .

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Gabriel Pierne was born in Metz in 1863. His family moved to Paris to get away from the Franco-Prussian War . He studied at the Paris Conservatoire. Pierne got first prizes for solfege, piano , organ, counterpoint, and fugue. He won the French Prix de Rome in 1882, with his work Edith . His teachers were Antoine Francois Marmontel , Albert Lavignac , Emile Durand , Cesar Franck (for the organ) and Jules Massenet (for composition).

He succeeded Franck as organist at Saint Clotilde Basilica in Paris from 1890 to 1898. Pierne himself was succeeded by another Franck student. His name was Charles Tournemire . Associated for many years with Edouard Colonne's concert series , the Concerts Colonne, from 1903, Pierne became head conductor of this series in 1910.

His most famous early performance was the world start of Igor Stravinsky 's ballet The Firebird , at the Ballets Russes , Paris, on 25 June 1910. He remained in the post until 1933.

He died in Ploujean, Finistere , in 1937.

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