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GUIRAUD, ERNEST (1837—1892)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 699 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GUIRAUD, ERNEST (1837—1892) , See also:French composer, was See also:born at New See also:Orleans on the 26th of See also:June 1837. He studied at the See also:Paris See also:Conservatoire, where he won the See also:grand prix de See also:Rome. His See also:father had gained the same distinction many years previously, this being the only instance of both father and son obtaining this See also:prize. Ernest Guiraud composed the following operas: Sylvie (1864), Le Kobold (1870), Madame" Turlupin (1872), Piccolino (1876), Galante Aventure (1882), and also the See also:ballet Gretna See also:Green, given at the See also:Opera in 1873. His opera Fredegonde was See also:left in an unfinished See also:condition and was completed by Camille See also:Saint-Saens. Guiraud, who was a See also:fellow-student and intimate of the See also:duke of See also:Guienne was arranged between See also:Louis XI. and See also:Henry IV. in 1463, where See also:Francis I., the prisoner of See also:Charles V., was exchanged for his two sons in 1526, and where in 1659 " the See also:Peace of the See also:Pyrenees " was concluded between D. Luis de See also:Haro and See also:Cardinal See also:Mazarin. friend of Georges Bizet, was for some years See also:professor of See also:composition at the Conservatoire. He was the author of an excellent See also:treatise on See also:instrumentation. He died in Paris on the 6th of May 1892.

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