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Born In Paris On June: GOUNOD, gob-no', Charles (1818-1893), French composer, who is best known for Faust (1859), one of the most popular of operas; for a number of exquisite songs; and for the classical Petite Symphonic (1888).
Early Career. Charles Francois Gounod was born in Paris on June 18, 1818, and had his first music lessons from his mother, a gifted musician. Unlike most music students of his day, he took his bachelier es lettres degree before entering the Paris Conservatory in 1836, where he studied composition with Ferdinando Paer and Charles Lesueur.Remaining in Paris, Cresset wrote for the theater, producing a tragedy, Edouard III (1740), and the comedies Sidney (1745), Les bourgeois(1747), Le mechant (1747), and Les parvenus(1748). He died at Amiens on June 15, 1777.GRESSMANN, gres'man, Hugo (1877-1927), German Old Testament scholar. Gressmann was born in Molln, Schleswig-Holstein, on March 21, 1877, and attended the universities of Geittingen, Marburg, and Kiel.
RADIGUET, ra-de-ge, Raymond, French poet and novelist: b. Parc-de-St.-Maur, near Paris, June 18, 1903; d. Paris, Dec. 12, 1923. He began as a poet whose works, Les Joues en feu (1920) and Devoirs de vacances (1921), were in somewhat the same orthodox style as the earlier works of Jean Cocteau, whose protege he became. |
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