Isidore Legouix
Isidore-Edouard Legouix (born April 1, 1834 in Paris , † September 15, 1916 in Boulogne-sur-Seine ) was a French composer.
The son of the music publisher and music dealer Onésime Legouix studied harmony with Napoléon-Henri Reber and composition with Ambroise Thomas from 1847 at the Conservatoire de Paris . In the competition for the Prix de Rome in 1860 he received an honorable mention for the cantata Ivan IV after Théodore Anne .
After studying at the Conservatoire, Legouix worked in his family's music shop, which was run by his brother Gustave Legouix , later by his son Robert Legouix , and which still existed in the 1960s at the place of its founding at 4 rue Chauveau-Lagarde .
He composed several operettas, which contemporary critics attested to talent and spirit. But they could hardly prevail against the overwhelming competition of the works by Hervé , Offenbach , Lecocq , Audran , Planquette and Varney , who dominated the Paris operetta theaters.
Legouix also composed some piano pieces and songs and the English-language comic opera The Crimson Scraf , which was played in London in the 1870s and appeared in a piano transcription by Théodore Moëlling in New York in 1878 .
Works
- Un Othello , operetta in one act (Libretto: Charles Nuitter and Alexandre Beaumont ), premiere 1863
- Le Lion de Saint-Marc , Buffo Opera (Libretto: Charles Nuitter and Alexandre Beaumont), WP 1864
- Ma Fille , operetta in one act, premiered in 1866
- Malborough s'en va-t-en guerre , buffo opera in four acts, joint composition with Georges Bizet , Léo Delibes and Émile Jonas (libretto: Paul Siraudin and William Busnach ), premier 1867 (based on the folk song of the same name )
- Le Vengeur , Buffo opera in one act (Libretto: Charles Nuitter and Alexandre Beaumont), WP 1868
- Deux portières pour un cordon , musical pochade in one act, joint composition with Hervé, Charles Lecocq and G. Maurice under the common pseudonym Alcindor , premiere: 1869
- L'Ours et l'amateur de jardins , Bouffonnerie in one act (Libretto: William Busnach and Auguste Maquet ), WP 1869
- Les Dernières Grisettes , Buffo opera in three acts, premiered in Brussels in 1874
- Le Mariage d'une étoile , operetta in one act (Libretto: Eugène Grangé and Victor Bernard ), premiered in 1876
- Madame Clare, somnambulist , UA 1877
- La Tartane , operetta
- Quinolette , operetta in one act (Libretto: Maurice Mac-Nab )
- La Clef d'argent , comic opera in one act (Libretto: Alexandre Beaumont)
- Après la noce , operetta in one act
- La Fée aux genêts , opera (Libretto: Eugène Adenis )
- Une nouvelle Cendrillon , operetta in one act (Libretto: Eugène Adenis)
Web links
- Information on Isidore Legouix in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- Isidore Legouix at Prix de Rome 1860-1869
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Legouix, Isidore |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Legouix, Isidore-Edouard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 1, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 15, 1916 |
| Place of death | Boulogne-sur-Seine , Seine department , France |