He studied the work of Giovanni Palestrina after winning the 1839 Prix de Rome, but he drew inspiration from another past composer for one of his most- performed sacred works.
He studied the work of Giovanni Palestrina after winning the 1839 Prix de Rome, but he drew inspiration from another past composer for one of his most- performed sacred works. Recently coming into popularity is his opera La Colombe, while his other operas include Polyeucte, Sappho, Philémon et Baucis, and the 1867 Roméo et Juliette. _FOR 10 POINTS—_ name this composer of a variation on a Bach melody entitled Ave Maria as well as the Funeral March of a Marionette and the 1859 opera Faust.
He studied the work of Giovanni Palestrina after winning the 1839 Prix de Rome, but he drew inspiration from another past composer for one of his most- performed sacred works.
Charles François {Gounod}