Symphony No.1, CG 527 (Gounod, Charles) - IMSLP

Symphony No.1, CG 527 (Gounod, Charles) Movements/Sections Mov'ts/Sec's: 4 movements Composition Year 1853-54 Genre Categories: Symphonies; For orchestra; Scores featuring …


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Who is Charles Gounod?

(Lived in England 1870–1874 and was appointed director of the Royal Albert Hall Choral Society, later renamed the Royal Choral Society.) View the Wikipedia article on Charles Gounod. Ave Maria (Méditation sur… Bach) ...

What is Gounod best known for?

Gounod is best known for his operas – in particular Faust. Celebrated during his lifetime, Gounod's religious music became unfashionable in the 20th century and little of it is regularly heard. His songs, an important influence on later French composers, are less neglected, although only a few are well known. ...

Did Gounod have a third symphony?

Gounod's sometime pupil Bizet took the First as his model for his own Symphony in C (1855). Late in life Gounod started but did not complete a Third Symphony. A complete slow movement and much of a first movement survive. Other orchestral works include the "Funeral March of a Marionette" (1879), an orchestration of an 1872 solo piano piece. ...

Was Gounod a 'charm'?

If one word sums up both Gounod and his music, it’s ‘charm’. As a man, he exerted it widely, especially on the fair sex: the whiskered sex often interpreted it as wheedling, and a rift with Bizet did raise doubts about his trustworthiness. ...

Where can I find a book about Charles Gounod?

Charles Gounod. Les musiciens célèbres (in French). Paris: Laurens. OCLC 166055265. Holden, Amanda (1995) . The Penguin Opera Guide. London: Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-051385-1. Huebner, Steven (1990). The Operas of Charles Gounod. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-315329-5. Huebner, Steven (2001). "Gounod, Charles-François". ...

What was Gounod based on?

In his Messe de Sainte-Cécile (1855) he attempted to blend the sacred with a more secular style of composition. An excursion into comic opera followed with Le Médecin malgré lui (1858; The Mock Doctor), based on Molière’s comedy. From 1852 Gounod worked on Faust, using a libretto by M. Carré and J. Barbier based on J.W. von Goethe’s tragedy. ...

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