Ernest Boulanger (composer)

Ernest Boulanger ( born September 16, 1815 in Paris, † April 14, 1900 ) was a French composer.

Life

Ernest Boulanger came from a family of musicians. His father Frédéric Boulanger was a cellist and a singing teacher at the Paris Conservatoire, his mother Marie -Julie Hallinger was a singer at the Théâtre de l' Opéra -Comique in Paris. Ernest Boulanger is the father of Nadia and Lili.

Ernest Boulanger studied at the Paris Conservatoire and won a 19-year Grand Prix de Rome, which secured him a stay at the Villa Medici in Rome, and a scholarship. Beginning in 1842, Ernest Boulanger began to make himself into Parisian musical circles especially with his opera compositions as well as a conductor a name. 1870 Ernest Boulanger was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour. In 1871 he became a professor of singing at the Conservatory. There he met Raissa Mychetsky, whom he married in 1877. In 1881 he was admitted to the Académie des Beaux Arts.

Ernest Boulanger moved in Parisian artistic circles and was friends with, among others, Charles Gounod, Jules Massenet, Camille Saint- Saens and William Bouwens.

Works (selection)

Operas

  • Le Diable à l' École ( libretto by Eugène Scribe ) ( 1842)
  • Les Deux Bergeres (1843 )
  • La Cachette (1847 )
  • Le 15 Août au champs (1852 ) ( libretto by Michel Carré )
  • Les Sabots de la Marquise (1854 ) ( libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier )
  • L' Éventail (1860 ) ( libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier )
  • Don Quixote (1896 ) ( libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier )
  • Don Mucarde (1902 ) ( libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier )
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