Late in his career this composer returned to religious works, composing the oratorios Redemption and Mors et vita, written in the same simple style as his late operas Cinq Mars and Polyeucte.
Late in his career this composer returned to religious works, composing the oratorios Redemption and Mors et vita, written in the same simple style as his late operas Cinq Mars and Polyeucte. Notorious during his life for his romantic affairs, including one with Georgiana Weldon conducted while he lived with her husband, this composer was convinced by the singer Pauline Viardot to write his first opera, 1851's Sapho, which was followed by other succeses like "Mireille" and "Romeo and Juliet". FTP, who was this French composer best- known for the Funeral March of a Marionette and the opera Faust?
Late in his career this composer returned to religious works, composing the oratorios Redemption and Mors et vita, written in the same simple style as his late operas Cinq Mars and Polyeucte.
Charles Gounod