Bordes, Charles (1863-1909)

French pianist, composer, and scholar. He was a pupil of Marmontel for piano and of Franck for composition. As maître de chapelle, first at Nogent-sur-Marne and from 1890 at the church of Saint-Gervais in Paris, he devoted himself to research into old polyphonic music and gave performances with the Chanteurs de Saint-Gervais that he also conducted. From 1889 to 1890 he explored Basque folk music and in 1894 was one of the founders of the Schola Cantorum.

Works unfinished opera Les Trois Vagues (1892-98), motets, choruses.