Terrasse, Claude (Antoine) (1867–1923)

French composer and organist. He studied at the Lyon Conservatory, then at Louis Niedermeyer's school in Paris, and afterwards privately with Eugène Gigout. After living obscurely as an organist at Auteuil and a piano teacher at Arcachon, he began to compose and settled in Paris in 1895 as organist of the Trinité.

Works Opera and stage opera Pantagruel (after Rabelais); operettas La fiancée du scaphandrier, Choncette, Le Sire de Vergy (1903), Monsieur de la Palisse (1904), L'ingénu libertin, Le coq d'Inde, Le mariage de Télémaque (1910), Les transatlantiques (1911), La petite femme de Loth (T Bernard), Les travaux d'Hercule (1901), Cartouche (1912), Le cochon qui sommeille, Faust en ménage, Le manoir enchanté, and several others; incidental music for various comedies; music for Théophile Gautier's and Théodore de Banville's Matinées poétiques.

Other Trio bouffe for strings, Sérénade bouffe for piano and strings; songs.