Ambroise Thomas
Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas (French: [ɑ̃bʁwaz tɔma]; 5 August 1811 – 12 February 1896) was a French composer and teacher, best known for his operas Mignon (1866) and Hamlet (1868). Born into a musical family, Thomas was a student at the Conservatoire de Paris, winning France's top music prize, the Prix de Rome. He pursued a career as a composer of operas, completing his first opera, La double échelle, in 1837. He wrote twenty further operas over the next decades, mostly comic, but he also treated more serious subjects, finding considerable success with audiences in France and abroad. Thomas was appointed as a professor at the Conservatoire in 1856, and in 1871 he succeeded Daniel Auber as director. Between then and his death at his home in Paris twenty-five years later, he modernised the Conservatoire's organisation while imposing a rigidly conservative curriculum, hostile to modern music, and attempting to prevent composers such as César Franck and Gabriel Fauré from influencing the students of the Conservatoire. Thomas' operas were generally neglected during most of the 20th century, but in more recent decades they have experienced something of a revival both in Europe and the US. |
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Recordings (Results 101-125 of 331 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | BS-022494 | 10-in. | 4/22/1938 | Gavotte (Me voici dans son boudoir) | Bruna Castagna ; Wilfrid Pelletier ; Victor Symphony Orchestra | Contralto vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | CS-047782 | 12-in. | 3/7/1940 | Je suis Titania | Andre Kostelanetz ; Lily Pons ; Victor Symphony Orchestra | Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | BS-074309 | 10-in. | 4/8/1942 | Gavotte | Ralph Ginsburgh ; Palmer House Ensemble | Instrumental quintet | composer | |
Victor | BS-074311 | 10-in. | 4/8/1942 | By the sleepy lagoon | Ralph Ginsburg ; Palmer House Ensemble | Instrumental quintet | composer | |
Victor | CVE-Test-411 | 12-in. | 1/21/1929 | I wonder why? | Hope Hampton | Soprano vocal solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | [Trial 1914-08-31-01] | Not documented | 8/31/1914 | Has sorrow thy young days shaded | Thomas Egan | Male vocal solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | [Trial 1915-05-11-02] | Not documented | 5/11/1915 | Aria Mignon | Florence MacBeath | Female vocal solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | [Trial 1916-04-03-03] | Not documented | 4/3/1916 | Mignon : Polonaise | Lillian Gresham | Female vocal solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | [Trial 1916-06-19-03] | Not documented | 6/19/1916 | Connais-tu le pays? | Odette Le Fontenay | Female vocal solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | [Trial 1920-01-05-05] | Not documented | 1/5/1920 | Brindise | Richard Bonelli | Male vocal solo, with piano | composer | |
Columbia | 516[b] | 7-in. | ca. 1902-Oct. 1905 | Mignon : Selections | Columbia Band | Band | composer | |
Columbia | 516[b] | 10-in. | ca. 1902 | Mignon : Selections | Columbia Band | Band | composer | |
Columbia | 871 | 7-in. | ca. 1902 | Raymond : Overture | Columbia Band | Band | composer | |
Columbia | 871 | 10-in. | approximately 1902 | Raymond overture | Columbia Band | Band | composer | |
Columbia | 1232 | 10-in. | ca. 1903 | Aria di Guglielmo | Roberto Vanni | Tenor vocal solo, with piano | composer | |
Columbia | 1495 | 10-in. | ca. June-July 1903 | Slaaplied | Alexander Lion | Baritone vocal solo, with piano | composer | |
Columbia | 1495 | 7-in. | ca. June-July 1903 | Slaaplied | Alexander Lion | Baritone vocal solo, with piano | composer | |
Columbia | 1583 | 10-in. | ca. 1903 | Aria Lothario | Alberto De Bassini | Baritone vocal solo, with piano | composer | |
Columbia | 1583 | 7-in. | ca. 1903 | Aria Lothario | Alberto De Bassini | Baritone vocal solo, with piano | composer | |
Columbia | 1584 | 10-in. | ca. 1903 | Brindisi | Alberto De Bassini | Baritone vocal solo, with piano | composer | |
Columbia | 1584 | 7-in. | ca. 1903-Oct. 1905 | Brindisi | Alberto De Bassini | Baritone vocal solo, with piano | composer | |
Columbia | 4037 | 10-in. | ca. Jan.-June 1909 | Io son Titania | Camille Borello | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 4210 | 10-in. | ca. 1909 | Addio, Mignon, fa core | Isidoro Agnoletto | Tenor vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 19876 | 10-in. | 4/30/1912 | Leggiadre rondinelle | Bernice De Pasquali ; Andrés de Segurola | Vocal duet (soprano and bass), with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 38661 | 10-in. | 2/26/1913 | La tua bell' anima | Alessandro Bonci | Tenor vocal solo, with orchestra | composer |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Thomas, Ambroise," accessed May 5, 2024, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/104369.
Thomas, Ambroise. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved May 5, 2024, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/104369.
"Thomas, Ambroise." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 5 May 2024.
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