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JONCIERES, VICTORIN (1839–1903)

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JONCIERES, VICTORIN (1839–1903) , See also:French composer, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 12th of See also:April 1839. He first devoted his See also:attention to See also:painting, but afterwards took up the serious study of See also:music. He entered the Paris See also:Conservatoire, but did not remain there See also:long, because he had espoused too warmly the cause of See also:Wagner against his See also:professor. He composed the following operas: Sardanapale (1867), Le Dernier jour de Pampei (1869), Dimitri (1876), La Reine Berthe (1878), Le See also:Chevalier See also:Jean (1885), See also:Lancelot (1900). He also wrote incidental music to See also:Hamlet, a See also:symphony, and other See also:works. Joncieres' admiration for Wagner asserted itself rather in a musical than a dramatic sense. The See also:influence of the See also:German See also:master's earlier See also:style can be traced in his operas. Joncieres, however, adhered to the recognized forms of the French See also:opera and did not See also:model his works according to the later developments of the Wagnerian " music See also:drama." He may indeed be said to have been at least as much influenced by Gouno.d as by Wagner. From 1871 he was musical critic for La Liberte'. He died on the 26th of See also:October 1903.

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