André Messager
André Charles Prosper Messager (born December 30, 1853 in Montluçon , Département Allier , † February 24, 1929 in Paris ) was a French conductor and composer .
André Messager trained as a church musician in Paris, at times as a student of Camille Saint-Saëns , and then worked as an organist and bandmaster at various churches . He devoted himself more and more to composition and made a name for himself in it.
In 1898 Messager became director of the Paris Opéra-Comique , 1901–1906 he was Artistic Director at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, 1907–1913 he was co-director of the Paris Opera . Messager directed the world premiere of Claude Debussy's opera Pelléas et Mélisande in 1902 . As a composer, he has appeared primarily with operettas and ballets . Sometimes the ballet Les deux pigeons (1886) and the operetta Véronique (1898), known as Opéra comique , are still played today .
He also composed collaborative works with other musicians. The parodic potpourri Souvenirs de Bayreuth (1880) is known as a quadrille based on Richard Wagner's melodies , which he created with Gabriel Fauré . In 1926 Messager became a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts .
Operas, operettas, vaudeville pieces
With the date of the premiere
- François-les-Bas-bleus , 1883
- La fauvette du temple , 1885
- La Béarnaise , 1885
- Le bourgeois de Calais , 1887
- Isoline , 1888
- Le mari de la reine , 1889
- La Basoche , 1890
- Hélène , 1891
- Madame Chrysanthème , 1893 (after Pierre Loti )
- Miss Dollar , 1893
- Mirette , 1894
- La fiancée en loterie , 1896
- Le chevalier d'Harmental , 1896
- Les p'tites Michu , 1897
- La montagne enchantée , 1897
- Véronique , 1898
- Fortunio , 1907
- Béatrice , 1914
- Monsieur Beaucaire , 1919
- La petite fonctionnaire , 1923
- Passionnément , 1926
- Coups de roulis , 1928
literature
- Michel Augé-Laribé: André Messager , Paris: Éditions du Vieux Colombier 1951.
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| SURNAME | Messager, André |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Messager, André Charles Prosper (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French conductor and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 30, 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montluçon , Allier department , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 24, 1929 |
| Place of death | Paris , France |