Camille Erlanger

Camille Erlanger (25 May 1863 – 24 April 1919) was a French opera composer. He studied at the Paris Conservatory under Léo Delibes (composition), Georges Mathias (piano), as well as Émile Durand and Antoine Taubon (harmony).^[1] In 1888 he won the Prix de Rome for his cantata Velléda. His most famous opera, Le Juif polonais, was produced at the Opéra-Comique in 1900.

Camille Erlanger

Erlanger died in Paris and was buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery.^[2]

A street in Quebec City, Avenue Erlanger, is named after Erlanger.^[3]

Works

Poster from the première of Le juif polonais

• Velléda, scène lyrique (1888), given at the Concerts Colonne in 1889
• La Légende de Saint-Julien l'Hospitalier, légende dramatique in three acts and seven tableaux, after the story by Gustave Flaubert, (1888)
• Kermaria, drame lyrique in three acts, libretto by Pierre-Barthélemy Gheusi, Opéra-Comique 8 February 1897
• Faublas, libretto by Pierre-Barthélemy Gheusi, 1897
• Le Juif polonais, after a novel by Erckmann-Chatrian, Opéra-Comique, 11 April 1900
• Le Fils de l'étoile, drame musical in five acts, libretto by Catulle Mendès, 20 April 1904, Palais Garnier
• La Glu, drame lyrique after the novel by Jean Richepin
• Aphrodite, drame musical in five acts and seven tableaux after the novel by Pierre Louÿs, adaptation by Louis de Gramont, 23 (or 27 ?) March 1906, Opéra-Comique
• Bacchus triomphant, 11 September 1909, Bordeaux
• L'aube rouge, 29 December 1911, Rouen
• Hannele Mattern, rêve lyrique in five acts (1911), libretto by Jean Thorel and Louis-Ferdinand de Gramont (1854–1912) after the drama Hanneles Himmelfahrt by Gerhart Hauptmann, 28 January 1950, Strasbourg (Opéra du Rhin)
• La Sorcière, 18 December 1912, Paris
• Le Barbier de Deauville, 1917
• La Forfaiture, 1921, Paris

La Forfaiture, based on the 1915 film The Cheat, is the first opera to be based on a film scenario.^[4]

Notes

1. Jacobshagen, Arnold: "Erlanger, Camille", in: Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MMG), biographical part, vol. 6 (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2001; ISBN 3-7618-1116-0), cc. 437.
2. Bauer, Paul (2006). Mémoire et Documents (ed.). Deux siècles d'histoire au Père Lachaise. Mémoire & documents. p. 316. ISBN 978-2914611480.
3. "Fiche descriptive : Avenue Erlanger". Commission de toponymie du Québec. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
4. Miyao, D. (2007). Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom. Duke University Press. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-8223-3969-4. Retrieved 24 May 2022.

References

• Forbes, Elizabeth (1992), 'Erlanger, Camille' in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London) ISBN 0-333-73432-7

External links

• Free scores by Camille Erlanger at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)