Hervé (composer)

Florimond Ronger

Hervé (composer)

Hervé , actually Louis Auguste Florimond Ronger , (born June 30, 1825 in Houdain near Arras , † November 4, 1892 in Paris ) was a French composer .

Life

Hervé was initially an organist and stage singer before he became Kapellmeister of the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in 1851 . He became the founder of a new French operetta era . Through his Les Folies-Concertantes , a stage theater that he took over in 1854 and for which he wrote several pieces, he became the forerunner of Jacques Offenbach's “ Bouffes-Parisiennes ” and the parody music that flourished in its wake.

Works

• L'œil crevé
• The sanctimonious girl
• The Crazy Composer , 1854
• The burst eye , (Text: Hervé), 1867
• Chilperich , (Text: Hervé), 1868
• Le petit Faust , (Text: Hector Crémieux), 1869
• Les Turcs , (Text: Hector Crémieux), 1869
• Le trône d'Ecosse , (Text: Hector Crémieux), 1871
• La veuve du Malabar , (Text: Hector Crémieux), 1873
• La belle poule , (Text: Hector Crémieux), 1875
• The wife for papa , 1879
• Lili , 1882
• Mamzelle Nitouche , (Text: Henri Meilhac, Albert Millaud), 1883

literature

Pascal Blanchet: Hervé par lui-même - Écrits du père de l'opérette (German: Hervé about himself - writings of the father of the operetta ) Coédition Actes Sud 2015. ISBN 978-2-330-05650-6 , 220 pages.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hervé in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Hervé  in the German Digital Library