Charles Gounod
French composer (1818–1893)
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He gave the world the opera Faust and an "Ave Maria" built on Bach that still plays at weddings and funerals. Gounod wrote church music, songs, and a marionette's funeral march that became a television theme — prolific, pious, and for a strange stretch in 1870s London, under the spell of an amateur singer who ran his life.
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Born in Paris on 17 June 1818 into an artistic family, Gounod studied at the Conservatoire and won the Prix de Rome, which sent him to Italy, Austria, and Prussia, where he met Mendelssohn and absorbed Bach. Deeply religious, he briefly considered the priesthood after returning to Paris, then composed prolifically — church music, songs, orchestral works, operas. Faust in 1859 made him; Roméo et Juliette in 1867 kept him there. The Franco-Prussian War scattered him: he fled to England in 1870, sent his family home in 1871, but stayed in London under the roof — and the control — of Georgina Weld…
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- Behlcanto!: Famous Tenor Arias2026
- Premières symphonies: Bizet, Gounod & Saint-Saëns2025
- Fauré: Requiem / Gounod: Messe de Clovis2024
- Gounod / d'Indy2023
- Vida breve2021
- Opéra-Comique Overtures2020
- Faust (1864 version)2019
- Faust (version 1859)2019
- Symphonies2019
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