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Title: Modern composers of Europe : being an account of the most recent musical progress in the various European nations, with some notes on their history, and critical and biographical sketches of the contemporary musical leaders in each country
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Elson, Arthur, 1873-1940
Subjects: Composers
Publisher: Boston : L.C. Page
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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France. Born atParis, March 3, 1857, he studied at the Conserva-toire and won the Prix de Rome with his cantata Sainte Genevieve. His earliest opera, Kerim,received little notice, but with Zolas Le Reve,in 1891, he began to receive more attention. Itsheroine is the dreamy Angelique, who falls in lovewith the bishops son, an artist who is designingthe cathedral windows. The bishop objects, butyields when Angelique pines away. The weddingtakes place, but she has been so weakened that onemerging from the cathedral she dies from excessof happiness. LAttaque du Moulin, another Zola libretto,deals with the love of Dominique, a soldier in theFranco-Prussian War, for Franchise, the millersdaughter in a small village. The plot involves thecapture and escape of Dominique, and the voluntarysacrifice of the miller in his place. In this operathe lofty continuity of Le Reve gives place toa more rhythmical and formally melodic style, andthe work achieved a tremendous success with thepublic at large.
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ALFRED BRUNEAU. THE FRENCHMEN OF TO-DAY 147 In Messidor, Bruneau returned to the sus-tained style of which he is such an ardent champion.The story, based again on a text from Zola, is at-tractive enough. On the banks of the gold-bearingAriege, whose waters, according to tradition, bringthe yellow grains from a mysterious golden cathe-dral where the Christ-child scatters them in play,the people have left off tilling the fields in a feverfor sudden wealth. Helene, the daughter of therich Gaspard, is loved by Guillaume, whose mother,Veronique, thinks Gaspard responsible for the acci-dent that caused her husbands death. Guillaume,prevented by poverty and other circumstances fromwinning his love, heads a band of idlers in anattempt to coerce Gaspard and destroy his gold-washing machines. Meanwhile Veronique has acci-dentally beheld the sacred cathedral, which vanishesafter being seen by mortal eyes. A tempest destroysGaspards plant, Veroniques suspicions are provedwrong, Guillaume and Hele

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