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	Charles Gounod - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gounod was born in Paris, the son of a pianist mother and a draftsman father.
		Gounod died in 1893 in Saint-Cloud in France.
		Gounod's Funeral March of a Marionette was used as the theme music for Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gounod (257 words)

	CHARLES FRANCOIS GOUNOD - LoveToKnow Article on CHARLES FRANCOIS GOUNOD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gounods second dramatic attempt was again in connection with a classical subject, and consisted in some choruses written for Ulysse, a tragedy by Ponsard, played at the Th~tre Francais in 1852, when the orchestra was conducted by Offenbach.
		Gounod had not studied the works of German masters such as Mendelssohn and Schumann in vain, and although his own style is eminently Gallic, yet it cannot be denied that much of its charm emanates from a certain poetic sentimentality which seems to have a Teutonic origin.
		Gounod himself is stated to have expressed his opinion of the relative value of the two operas enigmatically by saying, Faust is the oldest, but I was younger; Romeo is the youngest, but I was older.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GO/GOUNOD_CHARLES_FRANCOIS.htm (2203 words)

	OperaWorld.com's Opera Insights: Charles Gounod (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gounod's mother, Victoire, was twenty-one years younger than her husband and a talented pianist.
		Gounod showed talent for both art and music at an early age; his mother often sang to him, and by the age of seven he could read music as easily as words.
		Gounod himself was in poor health after a long bout with bronchitis and heart disease which had left him temporarily paralyzed.
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	Gounod - Petite Symphonie
		Gounod was one of the most distinguished French musicians and composers of the 19th century.
		Gounod was sent, at an early age, to the Lycée Saint-Louis, where he achieved great success as a composer and pianist.
		Gounod was influenced by Rossini's opera "Otello" at age thirteen.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/Opera/2716/gounod.html (358 words)

	Charles Gounod -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gounod was born in (The capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce) Paris, the son of a pianist mother and a draftsman father.
		He subsequently went to (A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD) Italy where he studied the music of (Italian composer (1526-1594)) Palestrina.
		Gounod wrote his first opera, Sapho in 1851, but had no great success until Faust (1859), based on the (A dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage) play by (German poet and novelist and dramatist who lived in Weimar (1749-1832)) Goethe.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/charles_gounod.htm (297 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Charles-Francois Gounod
		Gounod was sent early to the Lycée Saint-Louis, where he was one of the best scholars.
		It was during this period that Gounod thought he had a vocation for the priesthood, and for two semesters attended the lectures on theology at the Seminary of Saint-Sulpice.
		Gounod was a child of his time and of the France of the nineteenth century.
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	Gounod
		harles Gounod, born in France in June 1818, was one of the country's best composers of the late nineteenth century.
		Gounod studied at the Paris Conservatoire, and "after studies with Reicha, Halevy and Le Sueur, he won the Prix de Rome in 1838.
		On the whole, Gounod was doubtless surrounded a lot with the different members of his in-laws.
	www.maurice-abravanel.com /gounod.html (521 words)

	AZOpera Charles François Gounod Biography
		Charles Gounod, born in Paris on June 18, 1818 was the son of a talented but unsuccessful painter who died when Gounod was four.
		Gounod acknowledged that opera was the only field that lead to success for a French composer.
		Gounod was to spend the remainder of his lifetime attempting unsuccessfully to produce an opera as well received as Faust.
	www.evermore.com /azo/c_bios/gounod.php3 (495 words)

	New York City Ballet \| Repertory and Dancers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gounod Symphony is often seen as a companion piece to Balanchine's Symphony in C, his 1947 work set to the music of Georges Bizet.
		Charles François Gounod (1818-1893) was a central figure in French music during the third quarter of the nineteenth century; his style influenced the next generation of French composers including Bizet, Fauré, and Massenet.
		Gounod wrote other operas, none as successful as Faust, and other forms of music, including songs and the Symphony No. 1 in D Major (1855).
	www.nycballet.com /about/rep_gounod.html (318 words)

	Encyclopedia: Charles Gounod
		Charles Gounod This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright.
		Faust, Charles Gounods operatic retelling of the Faust legend, debuted at the Théatre-Lyrique on 19 March 1859.
		Download high resolution version (518x798, 61 KB)1882 caricature of Charles Gounod Scanned from Punch, November 4, 1882, page 215 Artwork by Edward Linley Sambourne This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright.
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	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gounod had a particularly strong influence on French composers from the middle of the 19th century.
		Gounod’s opera "Faust", based on Goethe's drama that had a wide influence over artists of all kinds during the 19th century, is concerned principally with Faust's seduction of Marguerite, whose own redemption is secured, while Faust remains the prey of the devil Mephistopheles.
		Gounod wrote two symphonies, but it is his Petite symphonie of 1885, for ten wind instruments, is more attractive.
	www.karadar.it /Dictionary/gounod.html (428 words)

	Gounod, Charles (1818 - 1893) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gounod's opera Faust is concerned principally with Faust's seduction of Marguerite, whose own redemption is secured, while Faust remains the prey of the devil Mephistopheles.
		Gounod's church music has seemed to some excessively sweet, a charge that cannot justly be levelled at the Messe solennelle de Ste.
		Gounod wrote two symphonies, but it is his Petite symphonie of 1885, for ten wind instruments, that has proved more attractive.
	www.naxos.com /composer/gounod.htm (427 words)

	Master: Gounod's Faust
		Charles-François Gounod (1818-1893) was a French composer of church music and operas.
		When Gounod died in 1893, the opera had been performed over a thousand times in Paris.
		Gounod's Faust was in the repertoire of the Bolshoi Theater, where Bulgakov saw it many times.
	cr.middlebury.edu /public/russian/Bulgakov/public_html/Gounod.html (1113 words)

	Charles Francois Gounod Biography / Biography of Charles Francois Gounod Main Biography
		Charles Gounod was born on June 17, 1818, in Paris.
		From 1870 to 1875 Gounod lived in London, where, in addition to presenting concerts and composing a number of religious works, he organized the Gounod Choir, later to become the Royal Choral Society.
		This has been criticized as a sentimentalization of the work of a great master, but it is in actuality an ingenious display of compositional craft in which Gounod kept Bach's prelude unchanged but used it as an accompaniment for his own expressive melody.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-charles-francois-gounod/index.html (568 words)

	Charles Gounod (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Beart camps it up as Lucette, a beautiful, lusty chanteuse who in the first scene is found weeping copious tears as Charles Gounod's hyperdramatic score from...
		UTAH OPERA presents Charles Gounod's "Romeo and Juliet"; Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, Salt Lake City; 7:30 pm; $10 to $70.
		Though a French adaptation with music by Charles Gounod, the story rings with the familiar mythical elements made famous in the drama by Johann Wolfgang von...
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	Charles Gounod (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Charles Gounod was de zoon van de schilder Francois Louis Gounod en de pianiste Victoire Lemachois, die zijn groot muzikaal talent vroeg ontdekte en hem dus muzikaal stimuleerde.
		De populairste compositie van Gounod is wel de "Méditation sur le 1er Prélude de Bach" (Zie Johann Sebastian Bach) uit het jaar 1852.
		Hier componeerde Gounod op het preludium in C gr.
	www.muziekbus.nl /verklaringen/charles+gounod.html (387 words)

	Directory - Arts: Music: Composition: Composers: G: Gounod, Charles François (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Charles-François Gounod · iweb · cached · An article from the Catholic Encyclopedia focusing especially on his religious compositions and the effect of his beliefs on his compositions.
		Gounod, Charles François · Biography noting studies and influences, early honors, influences, religious background, operatic works, conducting, and his effect on later French and other composers.
		Crawford and Gounod: Ambiguity and Irony in Malcolm's Katie · cached · Essay by Robert Alan Burns on the Canadian poet Isabella Crawford and her relation to Gounod.
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	Pro Arte: Gounod; Petite Symphonie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gounod was to have his operatic successes, but he also had a far wider range of interest than most French composers of his day.
		She introduced the young Frenchman to the works of Bach, Beethoven (as astonishing as it may seem to us, their music was virtually unknown in France then), not to mention those of her brother.
		But the extraordinary success of Faust in 1859 turned his attention more forcibly to the theater, and he never had written his "little symphony" but for a commission from his friend Paul Taffanel (1844-1908), the great and highly influential teacher of the flute at the Paris Conservatorie.
	www.proarte.org /notes/gounod.htm (378 words)

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		Gounod espère remporter le Grand Prix de Rome et travaille beaucoup dans ce sens.
		Gounod, malgré une certaine facilité dans ses oeuvres lyriques et un certain "arrivisme", a influencé de nombreux compositeurs français.
		Ravel considère Gounod comme le "père de la mélodie française".
	membres.lycos.fr /magnier/composit/gounod.html (561 words)

	Charles Gounod (1818-1893)
		Gounod's nature was very sensitive, almost mystic, and he had very seriously thought in a moment of his life to become a priest, attempt that finally did not make.
		Even if Gounod's output is to a large extent of a religious content, he did not miss the chance to try his talent in the world of the melodrama, without, however, particular success.
		Gounod also reformed the French lyric repertoire thanks to the sincerity of his expression and the solidity of his technique.
	www.artissimo.gr /english/cm_composers/Charles_Gounod.htm (461 words)

	Read about Charles Gounod at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Charles Gounod and learn about Charles Gounod here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gounod wrote his first opera, Sapho in 1851, but had no great success until Faust (1859), based on the
		From 1870-1875 Gounod lived in England, becoming the first conductor of what is now the
		Gounod's "Funeral March of a Marionette" was used as the theme music for "
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	Find A Grave Cemetery Records- Charles Gounod
		Gounod's reputation has dimmed considerably since then, but he is still important for helping to free French music theatre from the bloated traditions of Grand Opera.
		With the exception of "Faust" and "Romeo et Juliette" (1867), none of Gounod's 15 operas had lasting success.
		Gounod's "Ave Maria" (1854) is well-known, as is his droll "Funeral March for a Marionette" (1872), which became famous as the theme music for tv's "Alfred Hitchcock Presents." (bio by: Robert Edwards)
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	Charles Gounod
		Gounod Sohn eines Malers erhielt bereits Musikunterricht von seiner Mutter einer Pianistin.
		Nach seiner Rückkehr wurde Gounod Kirchenkapellmeister Organist in Paris.
		Auf Grund des deutsch-französischen Krieges 1870/71 wohnte er 1870-74 in London und gründete dort den „Gounod's Choir“ dem später die „Royal Choral Society“ hervorging.
	www.uni-protokolle.de /Lexikon/Charles_Gounod.html (386 words)

	Anecdotage.com - people Gounod anecdote. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Charles Gounod and Jules Massenet cultivated a first-rate musical rivalry.
		During the Franco-Prussian War, Charles Gounod sought refuge in London with his...
		The composer Charles Gounod was not pleased when demands were made for major cha...
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	Gounod's 'Faust' at Palm Beach Opera, reviewed by Lawrence Budmen
		There was a time -- in the late 19th and early 20th centuries -- when Charles Gounod's 1859 opera Faust was so popular that New York's Metropolitan Opera was often referred to as the Faustspielhaus.
		Opera lovers' changing tastes and the lack of world class French singers (since World War 2) has resulted in less frequent performances of Gounod's most popular opera and French operatic repertoire in general.
		Gounod's librettists Jules Barbier and Michel Carre turned Goethe's philosophical tragedy into a typical French romantic opera.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2005/03/faust1.htm (415 words)

	charles gounod
		charles gounod (1813-1893) en ünlü operasý faust olan, ama bunu yanýsýra mireille, romeo et juliette, ave maria ve messe de st cecile gibi operalar yazmýþ olan fransýz kompozitör.
		klasik batý müzðinin dev ustalarýna göre az yetenekli sayýlabilecek olan gounod, fransýz duygululuðunu taþýyan, bazýlarý yüzyýlý aþkýn bir süredir icra edilen yapýtlar verebilmiþti.
		ünlü mendelssohn dan aldýðý ilhamla besteciliðe baþlayan gounod, dini yapýtlar, þarkýlar yazmýþ, giderek opera alanýna kaymýþtý.
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	Amazon.com: Gounod - Faust / Hadley, Gasdia, Ramey, Mentzer, Agache, Fassbaender, WNO, Rizzi: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gounod's "Faust," which premiered in 1859, is the oldest French opera to remain in the standard repertoire from that time to this.
		The libretto was taken from the writer/philosopher Goethe's tale of an aging religious and philosphical man who renounced his faith and sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for youth, good looks, fame and the woman he loves.
		Gounod lavished the score with brilliant melody, drama and fiery intensity.
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	Biographie de Charles Gounod avec gold-music.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Son père, Jean-François Gounod, peintre qui avait obtenu le second Grand Prix de Rome, meurt alors qu'il n'est encore qu'un enfant.
		Gounod consacre les dernières années de sa vie à la musique sacrée avec "La Rédemption " et " Mors et Vita ".
		Ainsi Gounod aura-t-il contribué à réorienter la musique française vers son propre génie : sa dilection pour la mesure et pour la clarté.
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	France diplomatie - Une galerie de compositeurs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Issu d'une famille sensible aux choses de l'art (son père est professeur de dessin, sa mère a des talents de musicienne), Gounod poursuit de solides études classiques avant d'entrer au Conservatoire en 1835.
		Pendant la guerre de 1870, Gounod est à Londres où il reviendra à plusieurs reprises ; son oeuvre restera très appréciée en Angleterre (sa trilogie sacrée Mors et Vita sera créée en 1885 à Birmingham en présence de la Reine Victoria).
		L'oeuvre de Gounod se caractérise par la simplicité, une certaine sobriété des moyens (que ses détracteurs assimilent à de la facilité).
	www.france.diplomatie.fr /culture/galerie_composit/gounod.html (418 words)

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