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André Alphonse Toussaint Wormser (1 November 1851 – 4 November 1926) was a French Romantic composer.
André Wormser was born in Paris and studied with Antoine Marmontel and François Bazin at the Paris Conservatoire.[1] As a very wealthy man, Wormser was able to afford a membership in the social club Cercle artistique et littéraire.[2]
In 1872, Wormser won the Premier Prix in piano at the Paris Conservatoire,[3] and in 1875, he won the Prix de Rome for his cantata Clytemnestre. He is best known for the pantomime L'Enfant prodigue (1890),[4] which was performed across Europe and revived at the Booth Theatre in New York in 1916 (as the three-act play Pierrot the Prodigal).[5] He died in Paris.
Notable students include Charles Malherbe.
Wormser composed choral and orchestral music, opera and works for solo instrument and voice. Selected works include: