André Wormser

[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 all over Europe and revived at the Booth Theatre in New York in 1916 (as the three-act play Perroit the Prodigal).

Notable students include Charles Malherbe.

Wormser composed choral and orchestra music, opera and works for solo instrument and voice.