Ambroise Thomas
French composer and teacher, best known for his operas Mignon (1866) and Hamlet (1868).
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Mignon
Mignon is an 1866 opéra comique (or opera in its second version) in three acts by Ambroise Thomas.
Hamlet (Thomas)
Hamlet is a grand opera in five acts of 1868 by the French composer Ambroise Thomas, with a libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier based on a French adaptation by Alexandre Dumas, père, and Paul Meurice of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet.
Conservatoire de Paris
College of music and dance founded in 1795.
College of music and dance founded in 1795.
Under Auber, composition teachers included Adolphe Adam, Halévy, and Ambroise Thomas; piano teachers, Louise Farrenc, Henri Herz, and Antoine François Marmontel; violin teachers, Jean-Delphin Alard and Charles Dancla; and cello teachers, Pierre Chevillard and Auguste Franchomme.
Jules Massenet
French composer of the Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty.
French composer of the Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty.
There he studied under Ambroise Thomas, whom he greatly admired.
Daniel Auber
French composer and director of the Paris Conservatoire.
French composer and director of the Paris Conservatoire.
During his 42 years as a member he was joined by composers including Adolphe Adam, Hector Berlioz, Charles Gounod and Ambroise Thomas.
Nellie Melba
Australian operatic soprano.
Australian operatic soprano.
She then went to Paris to study with the leading teacher Mathilde Marchesi, who instantly recognised the young singer's potential: she exclaimed, "J'ai enfin une étoile! ("I have a star at last!"). Melba made such rapid progress that she was allowed to sing the "Mad Scene" from Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet at a matinée musicale in Marchesi's house in December the same year, in the presence of the composer.
Théodore Dubois
French Romantic composer, organist, and music teacher.
French Romantic composer, organist, and music teacher.
He became an organist and choirmaster at several well-known churches in Paris, and at the same time was a professor at the Conservatoire, teaching harmony from 1871 to 1891 and composition from 1891 to 1896, when he succeeded Ambroise Thomas as the Conservatoire's director.
Gabriel Fauré
French composer, organist, pianist and teacher.
French composer, organist, pianist and teacher.
The faculty of the Conservatoire regarded Fauré as dangerously modern, and its head, Ambroise Thomas, blocked the appointment, declaring, "Fauré? Never! If he's appointed, I resign."
Metz
City in northeast France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers.
City in northeast France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers.
Renowned Messins include poet Paul Verlaine, composer Ambroise Thomas and mathematician Jean-Victor Poncelet; numerous well-known German figures were also born in Metz notably during the annexation periods.
John Falstaff
Fictional character who appears in three plays by William Shakespeare and is eulogised in a fourth.
Fictional character who appears in three plays by William Shakespeare and is eulogised in a fourth.
Le songe d'une nuit d'été (1850), an opera by Ambroise Thomas in which Shakespeare and Falstaff meet.