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 201-225 of 331 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Brunswick | 8825 | 10-in. | approximately Oct. 1922 | Connais-tu le pays? | Florence Easton | Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Brunswick | 9552 | 10-in. | approximately Dec. 1922 | Mignon overture | Vessella's Italian Band | Band | composer | |
Brunswick | 8230-8231 | approximately June 1922 | Mignon overture | Vessella's Italian Band | Band | composer | ||
Brunswick | 8232-8233 | 10-in. | approximately June 1922 | Mignon overture | Vessella's Italian Band | Band | composer | |
Brunswick | X11507-X11510 | 12-in. | 10/1/1923 | Raymond : Overture | Walter B. Rogers Band | Band | composer | |
Brunswick | E27260 | 10-in. | 4/3/1928 | Connais-tu le pays? | Karin Branzell | Mezzo-soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Brunswick | E29232 | 10-in. | Feb. 1929 | Brindisi | Giacomo Rimini | Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Brunswick | XE27119-XE27120 | 12-in. | 3/23/1928 | Elle ne croyant pas | Mario Chamlee | Tenor vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Brunswick | XE27222-XE27223 | 10-in. | 3/30/1928 | Adieu, Mignon! | Mario Chamlee | Tenor vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Brunswick | 128½bm | 12-in. | 1926 | Lothario’s Wiegenlied | Heinrich Schlusnus | Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Brunswick | 935bi | 10-in. | 1930 | Mignon : Overture, pt. 1 | Alois Melichar ; The Opera Orchestra, Berlin-Charlottenberg | Orchestra | composer | |
Brunswick | 936bi | 10-in. | 1930 | Mignon : Overture, pt. 2 | Alois Melichar ; The Opera Orchestra, Berlin-Charlottenberg | Orchestra | composer | |
Edison | 224 | 12-in. | approximately July 1910 | Ah! Non credevi tu | Luigi Marini | Tenor vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Edison | 242 | 12-in. | approximately Aug. 1910 | Ah! Non credevi tu | Attilio Salvaneschi | Tenor vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Edison | 260 | Not documented | approximately Aug. 1910 | Connais-tu le pays? | Eleanora de Cisneros | Mezzo-soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Edison | 324 | Not documented | approximately Sept. 1910 | A vous jeux | Guiseppina Finzi-Magrini | Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Edison | 329 | Not documented | approximately Sept. 1910 | A vous jeux | Guiseppina Finzi-Magrini | Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Edison | 371 | Not documented | approximately Oct. 1910 | Recitatif [Demain dis tu qui sait ou nous serons] | Lucette Korsoff | Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Edison | 385 | Not documented | approximately Nov. 1910 | Addio Mignon, fa core! | Umberto Macnez | Tenor vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Edison | 406 | 12-in. | approximately Nov. 1910 | Brindisi | Giuseppe Kaschmann | Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Edison | 792 | Not documented | approximately July 1911 | Come il romito fior | Oreste Benedetti | Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Edison | 876 | 12-in. | Nov.-Dec. 1911 | Non conosci il bel suol | Lucrezia Bori | Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Edison | 988 | 10-in. | 4/9/1912 | Leggiadre rondinelle | Eleanora de Cisneros ; Andrés de Segurola | Vocal duet (mezzo-soprano and baritone), with orchestra | composer | |
Edison | 989 | Not documented | 4/9/1912 | Gavotte | Eleanora de Cisneros | Mezzo-soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Edison | 1148 | 12-in. | July 1912 | Non conosci il bel suol | Adelina Agostinelli | Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Thomas, Ambroise," accessed April 18, 2024, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/104369.
Thomas, Ambroise. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved April 18, 2024, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/104369.
"Thomas, Ambroise." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 18 April 2024.
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