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ERNEST See also:REYER (1823- ) , See also:French composer, was See also:born at See also:Marseilles on the 1st of See also:December 1823 . At the See also:age of sixteen he went to See also:Algeria, and remained there some years . The out-come of his See also:residence there was a symphonic See also:ode entitled Le Selam, the musical orientalism of which had, unluckily for him, already been anticipated by Felicien See also:David in Le See also:Desert . Maitre Wolfram. a one-See also:act See also:opera, was produced at the Opera comique II in 1854; and in 1858 Sacuntala, a See also:ballet, at the Opera . It was the See also:production of La Statue at the See also:Theatre lyrique in 1861 that brought See also:Reyer's name prominently before the public . But Reyer had to wait several years before obtaining a real and permanent success . Erostrate, an opera produced at See also:Baden-Baden in 1862, and given at the See also:Paris Opera some ten years later, was a failure . The composer had in the meanwhile set to See also:work on See also:Sigurd, the subject of which is the same that inspired See also:Wagner in Siegfried and Golterdammerung . It was at last produced in See also:Brussels in 1884, and subsequently brought out at the Paris Opera . Sigurd is a work of See also:great value, displaying its composer's elevated notions as regards the See also:form of the " lyrical See also:drama." Salammbo, founded upon See also:Flaubert's See also:romance, was successfully produced at Brussels in 189o . See also:Gluck, See also:Weber, See also:Berlioz and Wagner exercised most See also:influence over Reyer . As a musical critic (preceding Berlioz in that capacity for the See also:Journal See also:des debats) Reyer was a well-known writer; and he became librarian of the Paris Opera, and a member of the See also:Institute . His Quarante Ans de musique (with See also:biographical See also:notice by E . Henriot) was published in 1909 . |
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