# Victor Sieg

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{{Short description|French composer and organist (1837–1899)}}
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| name               = Victor Sieg
| image              = Charles Sieg (1837-1899).jpg
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| caption            = 1864 portrait of Sieg
| birth_name         = Charles-Victor Sieg
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1837|08|08|df=y}}
| birth_place        = [Turckheim](/source/Turckheim), France
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|1899|04|06|1837|08|08|df=y}}
| death_place        = [Colmar](/source/Colmar), France
| occupation         = {{flatlist|
*composer
*organist
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'''Charles-Victor Sieg''' (8 August 1837 – 6 April 1899) was a French composer and organist. He won the 1864 [Prix de Rome](/source/Prix_de_Rome) for his setting of the dramatic [cantata](/source/cantata), ''[Ivanhoé](/source/Ivanho%C3%A9)''.<ref name= "Gerard">[Gérard, Yves](/source/Yves_G%C3%A9rard) (2010). [https://www.chandos.net/chanimages/Booklets/GS2210.pdf "Saint-Saëns and the Prix de Rome: Scandal(s)?"]. ''Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921): Music for the Prix de Rome'', pp. 17–18. Glossa GCD922210</ref>

==Life and career==
Sieg was born on 8 August 1839, in [Turckheim](/source/Turckheim). His father, Constant Sieg (1807 – 1891), was a composer and the organist of the [Church of Saint-Martin](/source/St_Martin's_Church%2C_Colmar) in [Colmar](/source/Colmar).<ref>Waltz, André (1902). [https://archive.org/details/bibliographiede00fragoog ''Bibliographie de la ville de Colmar''], p. 202. J.B. Jung & Cie. {{in lang|fr}}</ref> Sieg studied first under his father and then at the [Conservatoire de Paris](/source/Conservatoire_de_Paris) under [François Benoist](/source/Fran%C3%A7ois_Benoist) (organ) and [Ambroise Thomas](/source/Ambroise_Thomas) (composition). He won the conservatory's First Prize in organ in 1863, and the following year he won the Prix de Rome for the cantata, ''Ivanhoé'' set to a French text by Victor Roussy based on [Walter Scott](/source/Walter_Scott)'s 1820 novel, ''[Ivanhoe](/source/Ivanhoe)''.{{efn|For the final round of Prix de Rome, the competitors were all required to set the same text as a cantata. The competitors hired their own singers for the performances before the jury.<ref name="Hamer">Hamer, Laura (2018). [https://books.google.com/books?id=9EVbDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT143 ''Female Composers, Conductors, Performers: Musiciennes of Interwar France, 1919–1939''], p. 143. Routledge. {{ISBN|1315451476}}</ref>}} The cantata premiered on 18 November 1864 at the [Paris Opera](/source/Paris_Opera) with [Jean Morère](/source/Jean_Mor%C3%A8re_(tenor)) in the title role and was well received.<ref name = "Pougin" />

''Ivanhoé'' proved to be Sieg's only major composition, although he later published several piano pieces including ''Trois Impromptus'', ''Tarentelle'' and ''Caprice-Valse''. After he returned from Rome where he had worked on composing an [opéra-comique](/source/op%C3%A9ra-comique), he took up a post in Paris as organist at the church of [Notre-Dame de Clignancourt](/source/Notre-Dame_de_Clignancourt) and devoted himself to teaching. He also served as the organist of the [Church of Saint-Merri](/source/Saint-Merri) and as the singing inspector for Paris city schools. Sieg died in Colmar on 6 April 1899, aged 61.<ref name = "Pougin">[Pougin, Arthur](/source/Arthur_Pougin) (16 April 1899). [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k56155267/f8.texte.r=Le%20M%C3%A9nestrel.langEN "Nécrologie"], ''[Le Ménestrel](/source/Le_M%C3%A9nestrel)'', p. 128 {{in lang|fr}}</ref><ref>Bisson, Alexandre; [Lajarte](/source/Th%C3%A9odore_Lajarte), Théodore; Baudouin, Georges (1884). [https://archive.org/details/petiteencyclop02biss "Sieg (Charles-Victor)"]. ''Petite encyclopédie musicale'', Vol. 2, p. 333. A. Hennuyer {{in lang|fr}}</ref><ref>''Gazzetta Musicale di Milano: 1866-1902'', Volume 5, p. 1647 (republished by NISC in 2008) {{in lang|it}}</ref> Rue Victor Sieg, a street in Turckheim, is named in his honour.<ref>Billich, André (1975). ''Histoire d'une ancienne ville impériale: Turckheim'', pp. 83 and 171. Éditions Alsatia {{in lang|fr}}</ref>

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