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A 10 page paper which examines the nineteenth-century French composer (1818-1893). Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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"will have entered forever the dusty sanctuary of libraries known only to students" (Ewen, 1937, p. 186). Another critic condemned him for setting "the Bourgeois Dream" to music (Harman,
1962). However, the life and works of Charles Gounod deserve more than just a passing encyclopedia reference or to be considered by more than just the most serious of
composition students. Gounods operas, chorales and orchestral pieces reflect a man and the times in which he lived. They are impassioned, innovative and bear the imprint of an
artist who lived, ate and breathed music. Charles Francois Gounod was born in Paris on June 17, 1818, the son of artistic parents - a father who was a commercially
unsuccessful painter and supported his family by teaching and a mother, a talented piano teacher who provided her son his initial musical instruction (Ewen, 1937). Gounods father died when
Charles was only four, so his mother supported the family by continuing her husbands classes while also giving music lessons (Charles Francois Gounod, 1999). At age five, Gounod was
placed in a boarding school and was later sent to the Lycee St. Louis, where his musical aptitude awed his instructors (Ewen, 1937). Gounod was equally gifted in art
and for a time seemed torn between the two but a musical epiphany he had at age 13 would forever change his focus and his life (Charles Francois Gounod, 1999).
His mother took him to see a performance of Gioacchino Rossinis Othello, and as Gounod later wrote, "I felt as if I were in some temple... as if a
heavenly vision might shortly rise upon my sight... Oh, that night! What rapture! What Elysium!" (Ewen, 1937, p. 183). Unfortunately, however, Gounods mother, worried about his financial future, did
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