CHARLES [FRANÇOIS] GOUNOD

  (1818-1893)

  French composer, pupil of Halévy and others at the Paris Conservatoire, where he won the 'Rome Prize', and so spent three years in Rome, afterwards church organist in Paris.

   At one time he intended to become a priest.

   Had great success with opera FAUST,1857.
 

He became conductor of what is now Royal Choral Society during the years 1870-1875 spent in London. He later concentrated on religious music, e.g. oratorio 'the Redemption'

Other works include opera 'Romeo and Juliet', and twelve other operas; nine masses and other
church music; many songs; three symphonies; several miscellaneous pieces including a meditation
on the first prelude of Bach's 'the Well-Tempered Clavier', the so-called 'Ave Maria', and the
Funeral march of a Marionette'.

Cultivated an immediately effective style often chromatically inclined, which has declined in favour
since his death.

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