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Ernest Guiraud
French composer and music teacher / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ernest Guiraud (French: [giʁo]; 23 June 1837 – 6 May 1892)[1] was an American-born French composer and music teacher. He is best known for writing the traditional orchestral recitatives used for Bizet's opera Carmen and for Offenbach's opera Les contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann).
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