Tourneuf, Joseph Pamphile Abel de (pseud: Abel, Joseph) 10.apr.1836-7.jul.1904 France, Grenoble - Tain-l'Hermitage
count, took a law degree, prefecture councilor, subprefect of Limoux, yielding to a musical vocation he gave up the administrative career to devote himself exclusively to composing, under the pseudonym Joseph Abel he left a magnificent series of works for piano and symphonies ; son of proprietor/rentier Jean Baptiste Scipion Jules Cesar Eugene de Tourneuf (Grenoble 7.aug.1792-21.sep.1874 Vourey) and Jeanne Camille Donin de Rosieres (Bourgoin-Jallieu 30.mar.1807-17.aug.1877 Grenoble) ; twin brother of Victor Henri Casimir de Tourneuf (Grenoble 10.apr.1836-) ; 22.dec.1878 in Grenoble and 6.jan.1879 in Paris he married Juliana Marie Victorine Benjamine Mace de la Torchere (Paris 1.may.1836-1919 Bourgoin)