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	Art of the States: Chasse fantastique
		Guiraud's own music includes a number of works for orchestra, opera, and ballet; Frédégonde (1895), the last of his operas, was completed after the composer's death by Camille Saint-Saëns and Paul Dukas.
		Guiraud was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of French émigré composer Jean-Baptiste-Louis Guiraud.
		Guiraud's first opera David was performed in New Orleans in 1853; in 1859 he won the Prix de Rome for his cantata Bajazet et le joueur de flûte.
	www.artofthestates.org /cgi-bin/piece.pl?pid=275 (402 words)

	ERNEST GUIRAUD - LoveToKnow Article on ERNEST GUIRAUD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		His opera Frdegonde was left in an unfinished condition and was completed by Camille Saint-Saens.
		Guiraud, who was a fellow-student and intimate of the duke of Guienne was arranged between Louis XI.
		He died in Paris on the 6th of May 1892.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GU/GUIRAUD_ERNEST.htm (202 words)

	Ernest Guiraud
		Ernest Guiraud (1837 - 1892) was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1837.
		In 1852, Guiraud went to Paris and studied with opera composer
		In addition to his own compositions, Guiraud wrote recitatives for Bizet's Carmen: arranged the second suite from Bizet's L’Arlésienne; and revised the opera, Les Contes d’Hoffman, left unfinished by Offenbach.
	www.morrisonfoundation.org /ernest_guiraud.htm (392 words)

	Paul Dukas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Paul Dukas (October 1, 1865 – May 17, 1935) was a French composer of classical music.
		Dukas was born Paul Abraham Dukas in Paris to a Jewish family and studied, under Théodore Dubois and Ernest Guiraud among others, at the Conservatoire there, where he was a friend of Claude Debussy.
		After completing his studies he found work as an orchestrator and critic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Dukas (351 words)

	Biography - Sylvio Lazzari (Bio 1517) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		At the Conservatoire he became a pupil of Ernest Guiraud and of Cesar Franck.
		In the same interview he reveals a "his love and admiration of the Bach of the Mass in B Minor, the Beethoven of the Ninth Symphony and the string quartets, his tenderness for Schumann and his passion for Wagner".
		Although Lazzari’s music is influenced by Richard Wagner, Ernest Chausson and Cesar Franck, it is highly individual in style and of a decidedly more virile temper than those three he considered his masters.
	musicbase.h1.ru /PPB/ppb15/Bio_1517.htm (812 words)

	OperaResource - RealHoffmann, the new edition by Michael Kaye
		The genesis of Offenbach's "Tales of Hoffmann" is complex, and the composer died leaving the score incomplete.
		For its world premiere at the Opéra Comique in February 1881, Offenbach's family entrusted the preparation of the performing edition to Ernest Guiraud, who is best known for finalizing the editions of Bizet's Carmen.
		Performing versions with spoken dialogue or a grand opera version with newly edited recitatives composed by Ernest Guiraud are possible; the "Sextet with Chorus" and Dapertutto's aria, "Scintille diamant," long considered as part of the opera even though they were not composed by Offenbach, may be interpolated in a new context.
	www.r-ds.com /opera/hoffmann/kaye_edition.htm (2903 words)

	Island of Freedom - Claude Debussy
		Debussy was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye and studied at the Paris Conservatoire, which he entered at the age of 10.
		There he studied piano with Antoine Francois Marmontel and composition with Ernest Guiraud.
		In 1879, as private musician to Nadejda von Meck, the patron of Russian composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Debussy traveled to Florence, Italy; Venice, Italy; Vienna, Austria; and Moscow.
	www.island-of-freedom.com /DEBUSSY.HTM (677 words)

	Program Notes: Brahms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Suites to L'Arlesienne (meaning "The Maid of Arles") were put together both by Bizet and his friend Ernest Guiraud from a larger body of Bizet's incidental music to Alphonse Daudet's play of the same title.
		The title is apparently a fanciful pun, combining "masks," or costumed dances of the Renaissance, with "bergamasks," dances purportedly from Bergamo in Renaissance Italy.
		Paul Dukas studied at the Paris Conservatoire and was a pupil of Bizet's friend Guiraud.
	www.warmsymphony.org /prognotes2.html (1378 words)

	Bizet - Carmen [RJF]: Classical CD Reviews- Apr 2003 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This practice was adopted for most recordings until the move to period instruments and the quest to follow the composer’s original intentions, supported by scholarship, came into vogue.
		So, given that two of the principals and the minor parts are sung by native speakers, the Escamillo is fluent and the name part married to a French speaker, the reversion to the bastardised Guiraud version is somewhat idiosyncratic; or perhaps this version is seen as being more popular with the buying public.
		The first, which is obvious immediately, is that this version uses Ernest Guiraud’s sung recitative, not Bizet’s spoken words.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2003/Apr03/Bizet_Carmen_EMI.htm (2527 words)

	ST RIQUIER - LoveToKnow Article on ST RIQUIER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Phryn, however, a two-act trifle of a light description, produced at the Opra Comique in 1893, met with success.
		In 1895 Frdigonde, an opera begun by Ernest Guiraud and completed by Saint-Saens, was produced in Paris.
		The lyrical drama Les Barbares, given at the Grand Opra in 1901, was received with marked favor.
	1911encyclopedia.org /S/ST/ST_RIQUIER.htm (2098 words)

	Debussy
		He was always refused what his teachers like César Franck and Ernest Guiraud taught in composition class.
		No wonder his teachers were irritated by his bad behaviour.
		Lastly, while Debussy was composing, instead of using classical forms and tonality style, he used ancient devices - oriental pentatonic scale, whole-tone scale, Gregorian melody.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/Strasse/9981/debussy.html (819 words)

	Claude Debussy
		At first, Debussy wanted to be a virtuoso pianist; later, he gave up the idea of a virtuoso career after two failures in the piano examinations in 1878 and 1879.
		In 1880 he attended the composition class of Ernest Guiraud.
		Under his guidance, Debussy won the second Prix de Rome in 1883 and the coveted first Prix de Rome the following year with his cantata L'enfant prodigue, which enabled him to study music at the Villa de Medici in Rome for three years.
	www.websophia.com /faces/debussy.html (646 words)

	Victor Massé
		Father of Ernest Guiraud winner of the Prix de Rome in 1859
		He succeeded Ernest Guiraud as professor of composition at the Conservatoire on January 1, 1894.
		Both Busser and Bloch were students of Ernest Guiraud.
	www.morrisonfoundation.org /Prix_de_Rome_Laureates.htm (1496 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Music / Handwritten Offenbach score is discovered (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It was unfinished at his death and was completed by his closest friend, Ernest Guiraud.
		It was believed by music historians to have been lost in a fire at the Opera Comique in Paris in May 1887.
		An earlier fire in 1881 at the Ringtheater in Vienna, where the "Tales of Hoffmann" had just been performed for the first time outside of France, had already destroyed the score for the opera version of the piece, created for the occasion by Guiraud.
	www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2004/07/15/handwritten_offenbach_score_is_discovered?mode=PF (483 words)

	Rare French works for violin and orchestra
		Lalo's Fantaisie Norvégienne, with its utterly gorgeous slow movement, was to become the inspiration behind Bruch's Scottish Fantaisie, and Guitare is an early encore piece for violin and piano (later orchestrated by Gabriel Pierné) that Lalo (himself a violinist) wrote for his own use.
		Guiraud, who taught composition to both Debussy and Dukas, wrote the haunting Caprice for Sarasate, and the Poème by Canteloube shows much of the charm he is now so famed for his Chants d'Auvergne.
		The combination of Romantic French music for violin and orchestra, with the ever-exquisite playing of Philippe Graffin and superb accompaniment from The Ulster Orchestra under Thierry Fischer, make this disc quite simply enchanting.
	www.hyperion-records.co.uk /details/67294.asp (553 words)

	ipedia.com: Jacques Offenbach Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Offenbach's final opera, The Tales of Hoffman, was more serious than his other works, reflecting perhaps the eternal wish of the clown to be taken seriously.
		It was still unfinished at his death, and was completely by his best friend Ernest Guiraud, and premiered in 1881.
		He is buried in the Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris, France.
	www.ipedia.com /jacques_offenbach.html (305 words)

	OperaResource - jacques offenbach and hoffmann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Les Contes d'Hoffmann: opéra fantastique in a prologue, 3 acts and an epilogue by Jules Barbier, after Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, instrumentation and recitatives by Ernest Guiraud, music by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), first performed (without the Venice act) 10th February 1881 at the Opéra Comique, Paris, with the following protagonists:
		Offenbach died in October of 1880, apparently leaving nothing but the numbers for the Olympia (II) and Antonia (III) Acts, the framework in the form of the prologue (I) and epilogue, and fragments of the Giulietta, or Venice, Act (IV).
		The composer Ernest Guiraud was asked by Offenbach's family to orchestrate some of the material not already orchestrated by Offenbach to enable the work to be shown, and later Guiraud also replaced the spoken dialogues with composed recitatives to ensure a wider distribution.
	www.r-ds.com /opera/resource/hoffmann.htm (688 words)

	Linda's Debussy Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Claude Debussy was born on August 22, 1862 in St. Germaine-en-Laye, France.He began studying the piano in 1871 and began his formal music education at the Paris Conservatory in 1873, where he studied under Antoine Marmontel and Ernest Guiraud.
		He soon began to reject much of his training including Germanic musical tradition.
		I like this piece very much and it definitely creates a mood in the Impressionistic style of Debussy.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Ranch/7782/debussy.htm (194 words)

	New Orleans Opera Association presents Tales of Hoffmann, an opera partially composed by New Orleans-born Ernest ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		New Orleans Opera Association presents Tales of Hoffmann, an opera partially composed by New Orleans-born Ernest Guirand - November 18 and 20
		An opera partially composed by New Orleans-born Ernest Guiraud.
		New Orleans-born composer, Ernest Guiraud was given the task of making revisions, completing the orchestration based on the composer's sketches and preparing the opera for its premiere at the Opera-Comique in
	www.neworleansopera.org /news/10132004.html (249 words)

	André Gedalge - biography
		Despite is father 's disapproval, André wanted to become a musician.
		He studied composition under Ernest Guiraud and in 1886, he won the Second Grand Prix de Rome.
		He worked as an assistant to both Ernest Guiraud and Jules Massenet.
	www.emepublish.com /english/Bios/gedalge.htm (698 words)

	Bizet, Georges (1838 - 1875) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		His melodrama L'Arlésienne, a collaboration with the writer Alphonse Daudet, was coolly received in the theatre.
		The two suites from the work are well known, the second arranged by Bizet's friend Ernest Guiraud.
		Bizet's only surviving symphony, written in 1855, was rediscovered and first performed in 1935.
	www.naxos.com /composer/bizet.htm (138 words)

	Recent Opera Round-up
		Hoffmann himself is an archetypal Schumann-cum-Heine romantic, pathologically incapable of settling down : half a dozen other E.T.A. Hoffmannesque vignettes and weirdos are woven into the action.
		Given the mix-and match about Offenbach's order of scenes, which Ernest Guiraud had to lick posthumously into shape, Hoffmann needs partiuclarly skilful pasting together onstage.
		This tiny room enlarges to become, with variants, the setting for each ensuing scene, as if to suggest each is a compartment of Hoffmann's packed psyche, or else it an offshoot of them.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2000/04/ortales.htm (298 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		Almost everyone knows Bizet's L'Arlesienne from the two suites arranged from the incidental music he composed for the play in 1872.
		What is not generally known is that the suites (the first by Bizet, the second compiled by Ernest Guiraud) were later re-orchestrated, adding full symphonic dress to Bizet's economical yet penetrating instrumentation consisting of 26 players.
		The difference is instantly apparent as you listen to this recording of Bizet's original score: timbres are sharper, chords are more transparent, and local effects, like the organ and Provençal tambourine, add enticing color.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=2097 (297 words)

	Re: If you had a program
		In my incorrigible way, I was merely framing my question to parallel the rhythms and inflections of Algernon's inquiries as to Ernest's double life in Importance of Being Ernest.
		Do you feel then that Carmen is a work that was struggling to be an opera, a work for which Ernest Guiraud ended up doing Bizet a favor, in a sense?
		Or is it simply because you would just as soon experience the work -- for whatever reason -- without _either_ the spoken dialogue _or_ Guiraud's recitatives (not sure any recording has ever done that, though)?
	www.talkaboutthemusic.com /group/rec.music.opera/messages/477009.html (287 words)

	French Culture \| Music \| Philippe Graffin: Journeys into a Hidden France (Gramophone May 2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This month's Exhibit A arrives courtesy of the young French violinist, Philippe Graffin, who has realised a long-cherished ambition to record, as the title of his fourth disc for Hyperion matter-of-factly implies, 'Rare French Works' for violin and orchestra.
		While the composer names will be familiar - Fauré, Saint-Saëns, Canteloube and Lalo, with Ernest Guiraud perhaps the exception to the rule - the works themselves will, for many, be entirely new.
		I came to rehearsal with some ideas but knowing that there were many possibilities to be explored: after all, how do you play a piece like Guiraud's Caprice which is very tuneful and has lots of charm but is so very conservative?
	www.frenchculture.org /music/people/graffin/gramophonemay02.html (753 words)

	Bizet: Carmen In Full Score - MIDI Classics
		Complete, authoritative score of what is perhaps the world's most popular opera, in the version most commonly performed today, with recitatives by Ernest Guiraud.
		And in over a century Carmen has never relinquished its position as one of the most performed and recorded operas in the repertoire.
		Conceived and composed as an opéra comique (a genre it completely transformed), Carmen was converted to grand opera, after Bizet's tragic early death, by the addition of recitatives composed by Ernest Guiraud.
	www.midi-classics.com /b/b1848.htm (370 words)

	PlaybillArts: Features: Tales of Genius
		Hoffmann, a grand "opera fantastique" completed by Ernest Guiraud (a New Orleans-born French composer), did not see the light of day until it premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris four months after Offenbach's death.
		There, the composer was asked to provide an opera replete with arias, ensembles, and spoken dialogue--similar to the style of Bizet's Carmen of 1876.
		When one examines the score, it's easy to see where the lighter textures of Offenbach are overtaken by the heavier orchestrations of Guiraud.
	www.playbillarts.com /features/article/3420.html (1464 words)

	Achille Claude Debussy
		He had his first piano lesson at the age of 9.
		In 1873, Debussy entered the Paris Conservatory, where he studied piano with Antoine Francois Marmontel and composition with Ernest Guiraud.
		His cantata L'enfant prodigue won the Prix de Rome in 1884.
	www.ptloma.edu /music/MUH/composers/debussy.htm (429 words)

	Welcome to the Best of New Orleans! Hot Pick 11 16 04
		By the time he died in 1880, Offenbach had finished the piano score, the orchestration for the prologue and the first act.
		It took a New Orleanian, composer Ernest Guiraud, to finish the work; Guiraud worked from Offenbach's notes and presented his own version for the opera's Paris premiere in 1881.
		New Orleanians got their first viewing of Hoffman in 1887 at the French Opera House.
	www.bestofneworleans.com /dispatch/2004-11-16/h7-hotpik.html (292 words)

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