Jean Nouguès
Jean-Charles Nouguès (born April 25, 1875 in Bordeaux , Aquitaine , † August 28, 1932 in Paris , Ile de France) was a French composer.
Live and act
After training as a schoolboy (in Gironde ), he made his debut at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux at the age of 21 with his first opera Le Roi Papegai .
He then took up studies in Paris with Jules Massenet. His opera Thamyris was staged in 1904. In the following year he created the music for Tintangiles Death by Maeterlinck (Paris 1905) and for Quo vadis? by Henryk Sienkiewicz (Paris 1909, also played at the opening of the Budapest Volksoper and at the Teatro Liceu in Barcelona on November 27, 1920).
In addition to the above, he composed the following works:
- La mort de Tintagiles (1905)
- Chiquito, le joueur de pelote ou Scènes de la vie basque (1909)
- L'Auberge rouge (1910)
- La Vendetta (1911)
- L'Aigle (1912)
- La danseuse de Pompéi (1912)
- Narkiss (1913)
- Cyrano de Bergerac (1919)
- L'Homme qui vendit son âme au diable (1926)
- La Bouquetière de St Sulpice (1927)
- Les Commères du marché Saint-Germain (1927)
- Le Marchand d'images (1927)
- Le Scarabée bleu (1931)
Web links
- Vocal score of Quo Vadis at the Sibley Music Library
- Libretto of Quo Vadis at Google Books
- Sheet music and audio files by Jean Nouguès in the International Music Score Library Project
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nouguès, Jean |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nouguès, Jean-Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 25, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bordeaux , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 28, 1932 |
| Place of death | Paris , France |