Hillemacher, Paul Joseph William

1852-

Distinguished French composer and pianist. He was born in Paris, Nov. 25, 1852, and received his musical education at the Paris Conservatory under Bazin. Hillemacher won a second prize for harmony in 1870, a first accessit for fugue in 1872, and the Grand Prize of Rome in 1876 for his cantata, Judith. Paul and Lucien Hillemacher, his brother, wrote all their scores in collaboration. They include Loreley, a symphonic legend; an opera, St. Megrin; comic operas, Une aventure d'Arlequin, and Le Regiment qui passe; music to Harancourt's Hero and Leander; a lyric drama, Le Drac; and songs.