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Bourgault-Ducoudray, Louis (Albert) (1840–1910)| French composer. A lawyer at first, he entered the Paris Conservatory late and took a composition prize in 1862. In 1869 he founded a choral society in Paris with which he gave performances of unfamiliar works. He collected and published Greek and Breton folksongs, and lectured on history of music at the Conservatory from 1878. |
Works Opera L'Atelier de Prague (1858), Michel Colomb (1887), Bretagne, Thamara (1891), Myrdhin (1905). |
Stage satiric play La Conjuration des fleurs. |
Church music Stabat Mater. |
Orchestral Fantaisie en Ut mineur, Carnaval d'Athènes, Rapsodie cambodgienne, L'Enterrement d'Ophélie (after Shakespeare) for orchestra. |
Vocal Symphonie religieuse for unaccompanied chorus. |
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