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 26-50 of 331 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | C-4872 | 12-in. | 10/9/1907 | Connais-tu le pays? | Marcella Sembrich | Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-6065 | 12-in. | 3/30/1908 | Styrienne, je connais | Geraldine Farrar | Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-6112 | 12-in. | 4/14/1908 | Berceuse | Pol Plançon | Bass vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-6236 | 12-in. | 5/26/1908 | Brindisi | Emilio de Gogorza | Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-6237 | 12-in. | 5/27/1908 | Polonaise | Bessie Abott ; Victor Orchestra | Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-6617 | 10-in. | 11/25/1908 | Gavotte | Victor String Quartet | String quartet | composer | |
Victor | C-6802 | 12-in. | 2/15/1909 | The Tyrol | Glyndwr Mountain Ash Welsh Male Choir | Male vocal chorus | composer | |
Victor | C-7067 | 12-in. | 5/12/1909 | Brindisi | Emilio de Gogorza | Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-8266 | 12-in. | 10/1/1909 | Connais-tu le pays? | Geraldine Farrar | Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-8557 | 12-in. | 1/16/1910 | Les hirondelles | Geraldine Farrar ; Marcel Journet ; Victor Orchestra | Vocal duet (soprano and bass), with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-9371 | 12-in. | 8/25/1910 | Scène et air d'Ophélie | Nellie Melba | Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-9517 | 12-in. | 10/5/1910 | Air du tambour major | Victor Orchestra ; Herbert Witherspoon | Bass vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-9943 | 10-in. | 2/10/1911 | Gavotte | Charles D'Almaine | Violin solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | C-10073 | 12-in. | 3/17/1911 | Io son Titania | Luisa Tetrazzini | Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-10100 | 12-in. | 3/23/1911 | Brindisi | Mario Sammarco | Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-10556 | 10-in. | 6/20/1911 | Adieu, Mignon | Alberto Amadi | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-11443 | 12-in. | 1/9/1912 | Berceuse | Marcel Journet ; Victor Orchestra | Bass vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-11604 | 12-in. | 2/20/1912 | Gems from Mignon | Victor Light Opera Company | Vocal chorus and soloists, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | CVE-11604 | 12-in. | 7/12/1928 | Gems from Mignon | Victor Opera Company | Vocal chorus and soloists, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-11744 | 12-in. | 3/18/1912 | Romance de Mignon | Jacques Hoffmann | Violin solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | B-11749 | 10-in. | 3/19/1912 | Pure as a flower | Reed Miller | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-11749 | 12-in. | 6/20/1912 | Pure as a flower | Reed Miller | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-14325 | 10-in. | 1/14/1914 | Overture | Vessella's Italian Band | Band, with harp and flute | composer | |
Victor | B-14326 | 10-in. | 1/14/1914 | Overture | Vessella's Italian Band | Band, with flute solo | composer | |
Victor | C-14510 | 12-in. | 2/25/1914 | Kennst du das Land | Ema Destinnová | Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer |
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Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Thomas, Ambroise," accessed April 23, 2024, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/104369.
Thomas, Ambroise. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved April 23, 2024, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/104369.
"Thomas, Ambroise." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 23 April 2024.
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