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