Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray

Louis -Albert Bourgault - Ducoudray ( born February 2, 1840 in Nantes, † July 4, 1910 in Vernouillet ) was a French composer.

Bourgault - Ducoudray studied at the Conservatoire de Paris by Ambroise Thomas. He won the Prix de Rome and in 1874 undertook a journey through Greece and the Orient, where he collected Greek folk songs. From 1878 he taught music history at the Conservatoire.

He composed operas, an oratorio, cantatas, orchestral pieces, chamber works, Greek, Oriental, Breton, Welsh, Scottish and Irish songs.

Works

• Le Carnaval d' Athènes
• Rhapsody Cambodgiene
• Symphony religieuse
• Jeanne la Patrie, oratorio
• Jeanne Flachette, cantata
• Louise de Mézières, cantata
• L'Atelier de Prague, comic opera, 1858
• Michel Colomb, comic opera, 1887
• Thamara, opera, 1891
• Anne de Bretagne, Grand Opera, 1892
• Myrdhin, Légende dramatique, 1912

• Composer ( romance )
• French composer
• Born in 1840
• Died in 1910
• Man