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Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. ERNEST GUIRAUD: A BIOGRAPHY AND CATALOGUE OF WORKS A Monograph Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts in The School of Music b y Daniel Weilbaecher B.S., The University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1969 M.M., The University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1972 Recital Diploma, The Royal Academy of Music (London), 1974 May 1990 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. PREFACE By the time of his death in 1892, Ernest Guiraud had established himself as a distinguished member of the French musical community. A native of New Orleans, where he was born in 1837, Guiraud traveled to Paris to complete his musical training. After he won the Prix de Rome in 1859, Guiraud's compositions earned him the reputation as one of the brightest hopes of the Ecole fran?aise. He was appointed to the faculty of the Paris Conservatoire in 1876, named Chevalier of the Legion d'honneur in 1878, and elected to the Acaddmie des Beaux-Arts of the Institut de France in 1891. Although Guiraud was widely recognized and highly regarded during his lifetime for his own works, his name is best remembered today for his contributions to Bizet's Carmen and Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann. and as Claude Debussy's professor of composition at the Paris Conservatoire. No comprehensive study of Guiraud's life has been published in either French or English. The most significant treatment of this subject is found in the manuscript of Branks Orlic's unfinished monograph "Ernest Guiraud et son oeuvre musicale," located at the Institut de Musicologie of the University de Paris. Georges Favre devotes sixty pages to Guiraud in his 1983 publication Compositeurs francais mdconnus (Ernest Guiraud et ses amis: Emile Paladilhe et Theodore Dubois!. Brief articles about Guiraud appear in many of the English-language encycopedias and dictionaries of music. In the absence of a significant body of personal correspondence, our understanding of Guiraud's character is limited to the observations of those who knew and wrote about him. In this regard, Orlic's work is especially ii Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. important, as he was able to interview Henri Busser (one of Guiraud's students) and Ad&le Guiraud-Damart (Guiraud's daughter, who was only eight when Guiraud died). Fortunately, Guiraud's association with many of France's most celebrated musicians (Bizet, Debussy, Saint-Saens, Massenet) offers documentation of many details of his life. I am especially indebted to the grandchildren of Guiraud's step-sister, Jeanne Guiraud Pool, who currently reside in Louisiana and Mississippi—-Mrs. Shirley Farrell Egge of Gulfport and Mrs. Audrey Farrell McCrary, Mrs. Adrienne Farrell Kepper, and Mr. Thomas C. Farrell, Jr of New Orleans. Not only did they share information and recollections about their family pertinent to my investigation, but they also extended me a generous grant in memory of their mother, Mildred Pool Farrell, and grandmother. This grant facilitated research in Paris at the Biblioth&que Nationale, the Bibliot&que de l'Opera, and the Institut de Musicologie of the Universite de Paris. I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to Dr. Jan Herlinger, whose generosity, patience, and encouragement provided inspiration, and whose impressive literary skills and professional guidance offered invaluable assistance in shaping and structuring this monograph. I am also grateful to Drs. Daniel Sher, Jack Guerry, Wallace McKenzie, Richard Kaplan, and Richard Cox for their time spent in examining this monograph and for their helpful suggestions for improving it. Many people have contributed to the completion of this project. I would like to express my appreciation to Jean-Pierre Marty for introducing me to the music of Ernest Guiraud; to Sr. Loyola Weilbaecher, O.S.U. for tutoring me in French and her assistance in translating; to Cecile Dalin- iii Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Hagar and Dr. Harry Redman whose knowledge of the French language also proved helpful; to Pascale St. Andrd and Philippe Bianconi for their research assistance in Paris; to Alfred Lemmon of the Historic New Orleans Collection; to Dr. William Loring of Scarecrow Press; to Catherine Masip of the Biblioth&que Nationale; to Dr. Robert Curtis of Tulane's Maxwell Music Library; to Robert Bledsoe of Tulane's Howard Tilton Library; to Drs. Peter Hansen and John Baron of the Tulane Music Department; and to Dr. David Beveridge of the University of New Orleans. For their general encouragement and assistance I would like to extend special thanks to Joan Landry, John Belsom, George Van Hoose, Raymond Gitz, Julianne Nice, Brian Eschette, Maurice Stouse, and Anne Simpson. iv Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE.........................................................................................................................ii ABSTRACT..................................................................................................................vi CHAPTER 1 EARLY YEARS IN NEW ORLEANS...................................................................... 1 CHAPTER 2 STUDENT YEARS IN PARIS...................................................................................1 8 CHAPTER 3 PRIXDEROM E..........................................................................................................2 8 CHAPTER 4 EARLY SUCCESSES..................................................................................... ...............4 4 CHAPTER 5 REPUTATION ESTABLISHED...............................................................................5 8 CHAPTER 6 PROFESSOR OF HARMONY....................................................................................8 5 CHAPTER7 PROFESSOR OF COMPOSITION............................................................................101 CATALOGUE OF WORKS........................................................................................129 BIBLIOGRAPHY........................................................................................................145 VITA.............................................................................................................................