Ernest Boulanger

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Ernest Boulanger

Ernest Boulanger (born September 16, 1815 in Paris , † April 14, 1900 there ) was a French composer .

Life

Ernest Boulanger came from a family of musicians. His father Frédéric Boulanger was a cellist and singing teacher at the Paris Conservatory , his mother Marie-Julie Hallinger was a singer at the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique in Paris. Ernest Boulanger married the singer Raïssa Mychetsky (1858–1935) and became the father of the composers Nadia and Lili Boulanger .

Ernest Boulanger studied at the Paris Conservatory and at the age of 19 won the Grand Prix de Rome with his cantata Achille , which secured him a stay in the Villa Medici in Rome and a scholarship. From 1842 Ernest Boulanger began to make a name for himself in Parisian music circles, particularly with his opera compositions and as a conductor. In 1870, Ernest Boulanger was knighted in the Legion of Honor . In 1871 he became professor of singing at the Conservatory. There he met Raissa Mychetsky, whom he married in 1877. In 1881 he was accepted into the Académie des Beaux Arts .

Ernest Boulanger moved in Parisian artistic circles and was friends with, among others, Charles Gounod , Jules Massenet , Camille Saint-Saëns and the architect William Bouwens (1834-1907).

Works (selection)

Operas

  • Le Diable à l'École (Libretto by Eugène Scribe ) (1842)
  • Les Deux Bergères (1843)
  • La Cachette (1847)
  • Le 15 Août au champs (1852) (Libretto by Michel Carré )
  • Les Sabots de la Marquise (1854) (Libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier )
  • L'Éventail (1860) (Libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier)
  • Don Quichotte (1896) (Libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier)
  • Don Mucarde (1902) (Libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier)

Web links

literature

  • Léonie Rosenstiel: Lili Boulanger, Leben und Werk , edited, revised and provided with an afterword by Kathrin Mosler, from the English by Sabine Gabriel and Rolf Wolle, Bremen / Worpswede: Signs and Traces, 1995. ISBN 3-924588-22-8
personal data
SURNAME Boulanger, Ernest
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French composer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1900
Place of death Paris