Ernest Guiraud

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Ernest Guiraud

Ernest Guiraud (born June 23, 1837 in New Orleans , Louisiana , † May 6, 1892 in Paris ) was a French composer.

Life

The son of the émigré composer Jean-Baptiste-Louis Guiraud (1803–1864), studied from 1853 to 1854 at the Paris Conservatory with Jacques Fromental Halévy and Antoine François Marmontel and in 1859 won the Prix ​​de Rome for the cantata Bajazet et le joueur de flûte . From 1860 to 1862 he stayed in Rome with his college friend Georges Bizet . From 1870 to 1871 he took part in the Franco-German War as a volunteer. From 1876 he taught harmony, from 1880 composition at the Conservatoire. His students included Paul Dukas , Camille Saint-Saëns , Erik Satie , André Gedalge and Claude Debussy .

He emerged primarily as a composer of operas . He also arranged the opera Les Contes d'Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach , composed recitatives to Bizet's dialogue opera Carmen and arranged the second Arlésienne suite by Bizet. His writing Traité d'instrumentation also became famous .

Works

  • David , Opera, 1846
  • En Prison , Opera comique, around 1859
  • Gli avventurieri , melodramma giocoso, around 1862
  • Sylvie Opera comique, 1862
  • La Coupe du roi de Thulé , Opera 1868–69
  • Le Kobold Opera, 1870
  • Madame Turlupine , Opera comique, 1872
  • Piccolino , Opera comique, 1876
  • Le Feu , Opera, premiered March 9, 1879; Paris.
  • Galante aventure , Opera comique, 1882
  • Caprice for violin and orchestra, 1885
  • Chasse fantastique , symphonic poem, 1887
  • Frédégonde , Drame lyrique, acts 1–3 orchestrated by Paul Dukas, acts 4 and 5 and ballet in act 3 composed by Camille Saint-Saëns, 1895

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