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Return to IndexGOUNOD, Charles
b Paris, 18 June 1818
d St Cloud, 18 October 1893, aged seventy-five
His father was a painter. He had early piano lessons from his mother, who was the daughter of a professor of piano at the Paris Conservatory. After a classical education he entered the Conservatory in 1836. He won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1839, and in Rome and Vienna he made many musical friends. While organist and choirmaster in a church in Paris he became interested in the priesthood and in 1846 he was accepted as an external student at the seminary of St Sulpice. However, this phase passed. He married in 1864. From 1870 to 1875 he was in England, conducting, and forming what has now been named the Royal Choral Society. Most of the rest of his life he spent in writing.
1837 (19)
Scherzo for orchestra
1840 (22)
Marche militaire suisse, for orchestra
1851 (33)
Sapho, opera
1852 4 (34-6)
La nonne sanglante, opera
1852-9 (34-41)
Faust, opera
1855 (37)
Symphony No 1 in D minor
Symphony No 2 in E flat major
Messe Solennelle de St Cecile
1857 (39)
Le medecin malgré lui, opera
1860 (42)
Philémon et Baucis, opera
1862 (44)
La Reine de Saba, opera
1864 (46)
Mireille, opera
1865 (47)
'Chant des compagnons'
1867 (49)
Romeo et Juliette, opera
1871 (53)
Saltarello for orchestra
1873 (55)
Funeral March of a Marionette, for orchestra
1876-7 (58)
Cinq-Mars, opera
1878 (60)
Marche Religieuse, for orchestra
1879 (61)
The Redemption, oratorio
1881 (63)
Le Tribut de Zamora, opera
1884 (66)
fp Mors et Vita, oratorio
1888 (70)
Petite Symphonie for ten wind instruments