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Edmond Roche (poet)

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Edmond Louis Joseph Arthur Roche (20 February 1828 in Calais – 24 December 1861 in Paris) was a 19th-century French poet, playwright, librettist and violinist.

A student of Habeneck at the Paris conservatory where he learned to play the violin (1842), he became first violinist of the orchestra of the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin before leaving this position to become a customs employee.[1]

Works

A friend of Richard Wagner, he gave the first translation in French of Tannhäuser.[2]

His poésies were published in 1863 by Michel Lévy posthumously at the expense of his friends, with a preface by Victorien Sardou with engravings by Camille Corot and others.

  • 1853: Mozart, étude poétique
  • 1856: Les Algues, études marines
  • 1859: Stradivarius
  • 1859: Les Récréations enfantines
  • 1860: L'Italie de nos jours
  • 1861: Les Virtuoses contemporains
  • 1863: La dernière fourberie de Scapin (À propos in one act in verse), (posthumous)

Bibliography

  • Madeleine Guignebert, née Duplessy, Henri Weitzmann, Le douanier de Wagner, Edmond Roche, 1861
  • Arthur Pougin, Supplément et complément, vol.2, 1881, (p. 427)
  • Revue internationale de musique française, Vol.1, Slatkine, 1980, p. 18

References

  1. ^ Georges Servières, Tannhauser à l'opéra en 1861, 1895, p.8
  2. ^ Collectif, La controverse Wagner, 2013

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