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GODARD, BENJAMIN LOUIS PAUL (1849-1895)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 170 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GODARD, See also:BENJAMIN See also:LOUIS See also:PAUL (1849-1895) , See also:French See also:round these barriers with little success, and the undertaking has composer, was See also:born in See also:Paris, on the 18th of See also:August 1849. He been abandoned. studied at the See also:Conservatoire, and competed for the Prix de See also:GODAVARI, a See also:district of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:north-See also:east See also:Rome without success in ,866 and 1867. He began'by See also:publishing of the See also:Madras See also:presidency. It was remodelled in 1907-1908, a number of songs, many of which are charming, such as " Je when See also:part of it was transferred to See also:Kistna district. Its See also:present ne veux pas d'autres choses," " Ninon," " Chanson de See also:Florian," See also:area is 5634 sq. m. Its territory now lies mainly east of also a quantity of piano pieces, some chamber See also:music, including the Godavari See also:river, including the entire See also:delta, with a See also:long several See also:violin sonatas, a trio for piano and strings, a quartet for narrow See also:strip extending up its valley. The See also:apex of the delta strings, a violin See also:concerto and a second See also:work of the same See also:kind is at Dowlaishweram, where a See also:great See also:dam renders the See also:waters entitled " Concerto Romantique." Godard's See also:chance arrived in available for See also:irrigation. Between this point and the See also:coast the See also:year 1878, when with his dramatic See also:cantata, Le Tasse, he shared there is a vast extent of See also:rice See also:fields. Farther inland, and with M. See also:Theodore See also:Dubois the See also:honour of winning the musical enclosing the valley of the great river, are See also:low hills, steep and competition instituted by the See also:city of Paris. From that See also:time See also:forest-clad.

The north-eastern part, known as the Agency until his See also:

death Godard composed a surprisingly large number of See also:tract, is occupied by spurs of the Eastern See also:Ghats. The coast is See also:works, including four operas, Pedro de Zalamea, produced at low, sandy and swampy, the See also:sea -very shallow, so that vessels See also:Antwerp in 1884; Jocelyn, given in Paris at the See also:Theatre du must See also:lie nearly 5 m. from See also:Cocanada, the See also:chief See also:port. The Sabari See also:Chateau d'Eau, in 1888; See also:Dante, played at the See also:Opera Comique is the See also:principal tributary of the Godavari within the district. two years later; and La Vivandiere, See also:left unfinished and partly The Godavari often rises in destructive floods. The See also:population scored by another See also:hand. This last work was heard at the Opera of the present area in 1901 was 1,445,961. In the old district Comique in 1895, and has been played in See also:England by the Carl the increase during the last See also:decade was 11 %. The chief towns See also:Rosa Opera See also:Company. His other works include the " Symphonic are Cocanada and See also:Rajahmundry. The forests are of great value; legendaire," " Symphonie gothique," " Diane " and various See also:coal is known, and See also:graphite is worked. The population is orchestral works. Godard's productivity was enormous, and his principally occupied in See also:agriculture, the principal crops being compositions are, for this See also:reason only, decidedly unequal. He rice, oil-seeds, See also:tobacco and See also:sugar.

The cigars known in England was at his best in works of smaller dimensions, and has left many as Lunkas are partly made from tobacco grown on lankas or exquisite songs. Among his more ambitious works the " Sym- islands in the river Godavari. Sugar (from the juice of the phonie legendaire " may be singled out as being one of the most See also:

palmyra See also:palm) and See also:rum are made by See also:European processes at distinctive. He had a decided individuality, and his premaftre Samalkot. The administrative headquarters are now at "See also:Coca-death at See also:Cannes on the loth of See also:January 1895 was a loss to nada; the chief seaport; but Rajahmundry, at the See also:head of the French See also:art. delta, is the old See also:capital.

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