Audran, Edmond (1840–1901)

French composer. He studied at Louis Niedermeyer's school in Paris and first made his mark as a church organist and composer in Marseille and Paris, producing a Mass, but later with operettas, the first of which, L'Ours et le Pacha, was produced at Marseille in 1862. His first production in Paris (1879) was Les Noces d'Olivette. Others included La Mascotte (1880), Gillette de Narbonne (based on Boccaccio; 1882), La Cigale et la fourmi (based on La Fontaine; 1886), La Poupée (1896), and Monsieur Lohengrin.