Pierné, (Henri Constant) Gabriel (
b Metz, 1863;
d Ploujean, Finistère, 1937). Fr. composer, organist, and conductor. Succeeded Franck as org., Ste-Clotilde, 1890–8. Ass. cond., Concerts Colonne 1903, becoming prin. cond. 1910–34. Works incl. ballet
Cydalise et le Chèvre-pied (Cydalise and the Satyr), 1923, from which comes the ‘Entry of the Little Fauns’; oratorios
La Croisade des Enfants (The Children's Crusade), 1902, and
Les enfants à Bethléem, 1907; pf. conc., incidental and chamber mus.