Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray

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Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray

Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray (born February 2, 1840 in Nantes , † July 4, 1910 in Vernouillet ) was a French composer .

Bourgault-Ducoudray studied at the Paris Conservatory with Ambroise Thomas . He won the Prix ​​de Rome and in 1874 went on a trip through Greece and the Orient , where he collected Greek folk songs . From 1878 he taught music history at the conservatory.

He composed operas , an oratorio , cantatas , orchestral pieces, chamber music works as well as Greek, Oriental, Breton, Welsh, Scottish and Irish songs .

Works (selection)

  • Le Carnaval d'Athènes
  • Rhapsody Cambodgiene
  • Symphony réligieuse
  • Jeanne la Patrie , oratorio
  • Jeanne Flachette , cantata
  • Louise de Mézières , cantata
  • L'Atelier de Prague , comic opera, 1858
  • Michel Colomb , comic opera, 1887
  • Thamara , Opera, 1891
  • Anne de Bretagne , Great Opera, 1892
  • Myrdhin , Légende dramatique, 1912

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