GOUNOD ( Charles), French composer (Paris 1818 -
Saint-Cloud 1893),
author of operas (Faust, in 1859; Mireille, in 1864;
Roméo and Juliette, in 1867)
and of religious compositions (Mors et Vita, in 1885)
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" That is all that tells us a popular french
dictionary on one of the greatest French composers. Even by
a web search, one notices that there is no real information
about this great man. It is in order to repair this injustice
that it was decided to create this site which is completely
dedicated to him. As Charles Gounod's great-great-grandson,
and mastering a minimum the torments of the Internet network
and Mac, I owed it to all of you who want to discover or rediscover
the man who, just to mention it, created " Faust ", the opera
which was the most played for a very long time in the world,
in competition with its illustrious " colleagues " so much
more mediatized. You will discover on this site a complete
biography, more than six hundred works, a discography and
bibliography, conferences, letters, all illustrated by numerous
photographic documents, etchings and paintings. Do not expect
all the same to find here a whole outfit of multimedia effects.
I preferred to privilege the speed of posting, and to allow
those who do not necessarily have the last version of such
or such navigator, or large power, to have a fair access to
all the information and pagination of this site. I wish to
thank Saint-Cloud's municipal Museum which's beautiful catalog
published for the centenary of Gounod's death was most useful
to me. I thank quite particularly my grandfather Jean-Pierre
Gounod for his encouragements and for the numerous documents
which he provided me with. Without his help, this site would
have never been so complete. And now, dive into the information,
enjoy, and do not hesitate to contact me if you wish more
info or simply if you have comments to make on the site. "
François Davin
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NEWS
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The mystery of "La Reine
de Saba" ! Concerning this opera some of you wrote
to me asking if Gounod was a freemason
(Franc-Maçon). If the question can be asked,
to answer it is more difficult. And Nicolas Gounod,
great-great grandson of Charles Gounod, will try to
do so in an essay to be discovered on this site:
UN OPERA
MACONNIQUE FRANCAIS MECONNU:
"LA REINE DE SABA" DE CHARLES
GOUNOD.
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Net d'Argent 2003
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