André Messager
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André Charles Prosper Messager was a French composer, organist, pianist and conductor. His compositions include eight ballets and thirty opéras comiques, opérettes and other stage works, among which h
Messager in 1921
Four of Messager's musical influences: clockwise from top left, Saint-Saëns; Fauré; Gigout; Chabrier
Poster for François les bas-bleus, 1883. The names of both the composers are in small print just below the title.
Scene from La Basoche, 1890
Reynaldo Hahn
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Reynaldo Hahn de Echenagucia was a French composer, conductor, music critic, and singer. He is best known for his songs – mélodies – of which he wrote more than 100.
Marcel Proust, Hahn's lover and later lifelong friend
La Carmélite (1902): the ceremony of taking the veil, cut under pressure from religious protesters soon after the premiere
Scene from Ciboulette, 1923
Mozart, 1925: Sacha Guitry and Yvonne Printemps