Claude Terrasse

Claude Terrasse ( born January 27, 1867 in L' Arbresle, † June 30, 1923 in Paris) was a French composer of operettas.

Terrace studied at the Conservatory of Lyon. There he led a Kornettistengruppe that occurred with the orchestra of the Grand Théâtre of the city. He had lessons in harmony with Alexandre Luigini and organ lessons with Paul Trillat. Later he studied at the École Niedermeyer in Alexandre Georges and Eugène Gigout. Here he also met Charles Bonnard, the brother of the painter Pierre Bonnard know, whose sister he married Andrée 1890.

He initially worked as a piano teacher in Arcachon and appeared with his wife in various chamber music formations as a pianist. During this time, his Petit emerged scènes familieres for piano, published with illustrations of his brother Pierre Bonnard. In 1896 he was appointed organist at the organ of La Trinité in Paris. Here he became known as a composer of incidental music for Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi in the Parisian avant-garde. Within the Théâtre des Pantins, a marionette theater, he worked out with Jarry with Franc- Nohain, AF Herold and the painters of the group Les Nabis together.

1900 began with La Petite Femme de Loth to a libretto by Tristan Bernard his career as a composer of operettas. He had his first major success the following year with Les Travaux d' Hercule by Robert de Flers and Gaston Arman de Caillavet. His most important librettist was Georges Courteline.

Operetta parodies composed inter alia terrace based on texts of his friends Franc- Nohain and AF Herold, Jarry also wrote a libretto by Eugène Demolder for him. With La Mariage de Télémaque ( after Jules Lemaître and Maurice Donnay ) in 1910, he found the entrance to the Paris Opéra -Comique. Overall composed terrace almost thirty operettas.