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ANDRE CHARLES PROSPER MESSAGER (1853– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 189 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANDRE See also:CHARLES PROSPER See also:MESSAGER (1853– )  , See also:French musician, was See also:born at Montlucon on the 3oth of See also:December 1853; he studied at See also:Paris, and in 1874 became organist at St Sulpice . He was for some See also:time a See also:pupil of See also:Saint-Sagns.._In 1876 he won the See also:gold See also:medal of the Societe See also:des Compositeuls with a See also:symphony . In 188o he was appointed See also:music director at Ste See also:Marie-des-Batignolles . In 1883 he completed Firmin Bernicat's comic See also:opera See also:Francois des bas bleus; and in 1885 produced his own operettas, La Fauvette du See also:temple and La Bearnaise, the latter being performed in See also:London in 1886 . His See also:ballet See also:Les Deux pigeons was produced at the Paris Opera in 1886 . But it was the See also:production of his comic opera La See also:Basoche in 1890 at' the Opera Comique (See also:English version in London the following See also:year) that established his reputation; and subsequently this was increased by such tuneful and tasteful See also:light operas as Madame Chrysantheme (1893), Miretle (1894), Les Petites Michus (1897), and Veronique (1898), the latter of which had a See also:great success in London . Besides conducting for some years at the Opera Comique in Paris, See also:Messager's services were also secured in London in 1901 and later years as one of the See also:directors of the Covent See also:Garden opera .

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