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See also:MESSAGER, See also:ANDRE See also:CHARLES PROSPER (1853– ) , See also:French musician, was See also:born at Montlucon on the 3oth of See also:December 1853; he studied at See also:Paris, and in 1874 became organist at St Sulpice. He was for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of See also:Saint-Sagns.._In 1876 he won the See also:gold See also:medal of the Societe See also:des Compositeuls with a See also:symphony. In 188o he was appointed See also:music director at Ste See also:Marie-des-Batignolles. In 1883 he completed Firmin Bernicat's comic See also:opera See also:Francois des bas bleus; and in 1885 produced his own operettas, La Fauvette du See also:temple and La Bearnaise, the latter being performed in See also:London in 1886. His See also:ballet See also:Les Deux pigeons was produced at the Paris Opera in 1886. But it was the See also:production of his comic opera La See also:Basoche in 1890 at' the Opera Comique (See also:English version in London the following See also:year) that established his reputation; and subsequently this was increased by such tuneful and tasteful See also:light
operas as Madame Chrysantheme (1893), Miretle (1894), Les Petites Michus (1897), and Veronique (1898), the latter of which had a See also:great success in London. Besides conducting for some years at the Opera Comique in Paris, Messager's services were also secured in London in 1901 and later years as one of the See also:directors of the Covent See also:Garden opera.
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