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 176-200 of 331 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Columbia | 10514 | 10-in. | approximately 1903 to 1908 | Mignon : Ah! Non credevi tu | Umberto Sacchetti | Tenor vocal solo | composer | |
Columbia | 10694 | 10-in. | approximately 1903 to 1908 | Mignon : Addio Mignon | Angelo Santini | Tenor vocal solo | composer | |
Columbia | 11002 | 10-in. | approximately 1908 to 1914 | Non conosci il bel suol | B. Costa-Marrugat | Mezzo-soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 11010 | 10-in. | approximately 1908 to 1914 | In veder l’amata stanza | B. Costa-Marrugat | Mezzo-soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 11266 | 10-in. | approximately 1908 to 1914 | Addio, Mignon | Angelo Bendinelli | Tenor vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 11292 | 10-in. | approximately 1908 to 1914 | Come il romito fior | Cesare Formichi | Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 11473 | 10-in. | approximately 1908 to 1914 | Brindisi | Cesare Formichi | Baritone vocal solo | composer | |
Columbia | 36309 | 10-in. | approximately 1913 | Drinklied | Carel Butter | Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 41901 | 10-in. | 1913 | Ah! Non credevi tu | Giuseppe Paganelli | Tenor vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 42229 | 10-in. | approximately August 1914 | Mignon : Io son Titania | Albertina Cassani | Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 42237 | 10-in. | approximately August 1914 | Mignon : Leggiadre rondinelle | Vincenzo Bettoni ; Eugenia Nunez-López | Vocal duet (soprano and bass), with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 44010 | 10-in. | either 1916 or 1917 | Connais-tu le pays? | Odette Le Fontenay | Soprano vocal solo | composer | |
Columbia | 44558 | 10-in. | either 1916 or 1917 | Kennst du das Land | Melanie Kurt | Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 50023 | 10-in. | between 1903 and 1906 | Mignon : Berceuse | Paul Aumonier | Bass vocal solo, with piano | composer | |
Columbia | 50388 | 10-in. | between 1903 and 1906 | Comme une pâle fleur | Jean Noté | Baritone vocal solo | composer | |
Columbia | 51136 | 10-in. | after 1914 | Mignon : Entr'acte gavotte | Boris Lensky ; D. Tas | Violin solo, with piano | composer | |
Columbia | 74117 | 12-in. | approximately June 1920 | In her simplicity | Hughes Macklin | Tenor vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 76851 | 12-in. | 12/22/1922 | Mignon, selection, part 1 | Alick Maclean ; New Queen's Hall Light Orchestra | Orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 76852 | 12-in. | 12/22/1922 | Mignon, selection, part 2 | Alick Maclean ; New Queen's Hall Light Orchestra | Orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 87334 | 10-in. | approximately May 1921 | Mignon : Duo des hirondelles | Louis Chartier | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
OKeh | 184 | 10-in. | ca. June 1918 | Mignon : Polonaise | Albert Chiaffareli | Clarinet solo, with orchestra | composer | |
OKeh | S-7062 | 10-in. | ca. Oct. 1919 | Mignon : Overture | Henry Hadley Symphony Orchestra | Orchestra | composer | |
OKeh | S-7063 | 10-in. | ca. Oct. 1919 | Mignon : Overture | Henry Hadley Symphony Orchestra | Orchestra | composer | |
Brunswick | [Br cat 5205-a] | 10-in. | approximately Feb. 1918 | Raymond overture | Brunswick Military Band | Band | composer | |
Brunswick | [Br cat 5205-b] | 10-in. | approximately Feb. 1918 | Raymond overture | Brunswick Military Band | Band | composer |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Thomas, Ambroise," accessed April 19, 2024, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/104369.
Thomas, Ambroise. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved April 19, 2024, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/104369.
"Thomas, Ambroise." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 19 April 2024.
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