Charles Gounod / Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music
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French composer, Charles Gounod (1818-1893) was a prominent composer in his day, best remembered for his Ave Maria and Opera Faust. 1890 saw the premiere of his Brief Mass. This work helped establish Gounod as a noteworthy composer. Despite being a minor composer to us today, Gounod was famed in his day, so much so that at his funeral, Camille Saint-Saëns played the Organ and Gabriel Fauré conducted. Gounod's Brief Mass proves the composer's extraordinary talent and caught the attention of much of Paris when it was first performed, composed for SATB choir, solo voices and Organor Piano accompa...
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- CHARLES GOUNOD AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL REMINISCENCES WITH FAMILY LETTERS AND NOTES ON MUSIC
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHARLES GOUNOD
- I CHILDHOOD
- II ITALY
- LETTERS
- I Monsieur Lefuel, Artist, Poste Restante, Nice-maritime.
- II Monsieur H. Lefuel, Architect, Académie de France, Villa Medicis, Rome.
- III Monsieur Hector Lefuel, Poste Restante, Venice.
- III GERMANY
- IV HOME AGAIN
- LETTERS
- I Monsieur H. Lefuel, Poste Restante, Genoa.
- II Monsieur Charles Gounod, 47 Rue Pigalle, Paris.
- III Monsieur Hector Lefuel, 20 Rue du Tournon, Paris.
- IV Monsieur Pigny[17], Rue d'Enghien, Paris.
- LATER LETTERS OF CHARLES GOUNOD 1870-1871 [18]
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- BERLIOZ
- M. CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS AND HIS OPERA "HENRI VIII."
- NATURE AND ART
- THE ACADEMY OF FRANCE AT ROME
- THE ARTIST AND MODERN SOCIETY
- FOOTNOTES:
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