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 301-325 of 331 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Gennett | 15375 | 10-in. | 7/22/1929 | Addio Mignon | Augusto Monterroso | Tenor vocal solo, with piano | composer | |
Columbia (U.K.) | A1863 | 10-in. | between May 1923 and October 1925 | Come il romito fior | Riccardo Stracciari | Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia (U.K.) | A1925 | 10-in. | between May 1923 and October 1925 | Brindisi | Riccardo Stracciari | Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia (U.K.) | WAX3492 | 12-in. | between March and May 1928 | Mignon polonaise | J. H. Squire Celeste Octet | Celeste octet | composer | |
Columbia (U.K.) | B14 | 10-in. | before June 1923 | Ah! Non credevi tu | Dino Borgioli | Tenor vocal solo | composer | |
Columbia (U.K.) | B17 | 10-in. | before June 1923 | Addio Mignon | Dino Borgioli | Tenor vocal solo | composer | |
Columbia (U.K.) | B359 | 10-in. | 1923 or 1924 | Non conosci il bei suol | Lina Lanza | Mezzo-soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia (U.K.) | WB1350 | 10-in. | approximately April 1927 | Non conosci il bei suol | Ebe Stignani | Mezzo-soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia (U.K.) | WB1385 | 10-in. | between April and August 1927 | Addio Mignon | Roberto D'Alessio | Tenor vocal solo | composer | |
Columbia (U.K.) | WB1386 | 10-in. | between April and August 1927 | Ah! non credevi tu | Roberto D'Alessio | Tenor vocal solo | composer | |
Columbia (U.K.) | WB1492 | 10-in. | 18-29 August, 1927 | Addio Mignon | Cristy Solari | Tenor vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia (U.K.) | WB1524 | 10-in. | 18-29 August, 1927 | Ah! Non credevi tu | Cristy Solari | Tenor vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia (U.K.) | WB1778 | 10-in. | between January and June 1928 | Berceuse | Tancredi Pasero | Bass vocal solo | composer | |
Columbia (U.K.) | WB2393 | 10-in. | approximately 1929 | Non conosci il bel suol | Conchita Velásquez | Mezzo-soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia (U.K.) | WB2530 | 10-in. | approximately 1929 | Ella é la presso a lui | Conchita Velásquez | Mezzo-soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia (U.K.) | WLX581 | 12-in. | 10/13/1928 | Elle ne croyait pas | Élie Cohen ; Louis Dister | Tenor vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia (U.K.) | WLX1397 | 10-in. | 10/20/1930 | Overture | Eugène Bigot | Orchestra | composer | |
Columbia (U.K.) | WLX1398 | 10-in. | 10/20/1930 | Overture | Eugène Bigot | Orchestra | composer | |
Columbia (U.K.) | WLX1406 | 12-in. | 11/7/1930 | Je suis Titania la blonde | Élie Cohen ; Germaine Féraldy | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia (U.K.) | CLX1666 | 12-in. | 2/13/1933 | Connais-tu le pays | Germaine Cernay ; Élie Cohen | Mezzo-soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia (U.K.) | WL2089 | 10-in. | 3/5/1930 | L'amour ce dieu profane | Élie Cohen ; Armand Narçon | Bass vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia (U.K.) | WL2198 | 10-in. | 4/15/1930 | Le tambour-major tout galonné d'or | Armand Narçon | Bass vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia (U.K.) | WL3487 | 10-in. | approximately 1932 | Doute de la lumière, 1re partie | Eugène Bigot ; Pierre Deldi ; Germaine Féraldy | Vocal duet (soprano and baritone), with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia (U.K.) | WL3488 | 10-in. | approximately 1932 | Doute de la lumière, 2e partie | Eugène Bigot ; Pierre Deldi ; Germaine Féraldy | Vocal duet (soprano and baritone), with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia (U.K.) | WL3747 | 10-in. | 6/3/1932 | Romance de Mignon | Henri Büsser ; Germaine Cernay | Mezzo-soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Thomas, Ambroise," accessed April 30, 2024, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/104369.
Thomas, Ambroise. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved April 30, 2024, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/104369.
"Thomas, Ambroise." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 30 April 2024.
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