Ferdinand de Craywinckel

Ferdinand Manuel Martin Louis Barthélemy de Craywinckel (24 August 1820 – after 1888)[1] was a Spanish-French conductor and composer.

He was born in Madrid into a family of aristocratic Belgian descent and moved to Bordeaux at age 5.

He studied at the Conservatoire de Bordeaux, studying composition with Bellon, who was a pupil of Anton Reicha.

He was maitre de chapelle at St. Bruno, where he lived after 1825.

He wrote many masses and other church works which are of high calibre.