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Bourgault-Ducoudray, Louis (Albert)

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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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