Frédéric Toulmouche Explained

Frédéric-Michel Toulmouche (4 August 1850 – 23 February 1909)[1] [2] was a French composer, who specialised in light theatrical music for small theatres.

Biography

Toulmouche was born in Nantes, in a well-to-do family counting several artists (the painter Auguste Toulmouche was his cousin).[3] After his studies at the Nantes Lycée, he went to Paris to study with Victor Massé at the Conservatoire de Paris. He became known as a composer of opéras comiques and opérettes,[4] [5] [6] the best known of which were La veillée des noces, Mademoiselle ma femme, La perle du Cantal, La Saint-Valentin and Tante Agnes.[7] In the latter part of his career Toulmouche composed ballet scores for French music-halls, and was the chef de chant (vocal coach), for the Opéra-Comique, Paris.[7]

Little of Toulmouche's music was given abroad. His Le moûtier de Saint-Guignolet (Brussels, 1885, revised 1888) was performed in an English adaptation as The Wedding Eve as the opening production of the Trafalgar Square Theatre, London, in 1892. The Musical Times commented that it was prudent of the management to commission Ernest Ford and "Yvolde" (Alfred Moul) to strengthen Toulmouche's score.[8] [9]

In 1908, Toulmouche was struck by a brain haemorrhage. His last works (La môme Flora and Chez la somnambule) were finished in collaboration with his son, Eddy Toulmouche.[10] [11] [12] Actually Eddy Toulmouche (aka Edy Toulmouche) is probably the artist name of his step-son, Frédéric Louis de Jonghe (1886?–23 Jan 1923),[13] [14] son of his wife, Marie Louise Dureau, and her first husband, the Belgian painter Gustave de Jonghe (1828–1893).[15]

Frédéric Toulmouche died in Paris, aged 58.[2] [16] [17] He was buried at the Paris La Chapelle cemetery on 25 Feb 1909.[18]

Works

Toulmouche's works include:[19] [5]

Sources

Notes and References

  1. https://archives-numerisees.nantes.fr/v2/am441/visualiseur/etatcivil.html?id=451003587 Etat-civil de Nantes 2me Canton
  2. http://archives.paris.fr/arkotheque/visionneuse/visionneuse.php?arko=YTo2OntzOjQ6ImRhdGUiO3M6MTA6IjIwMjItMDQtMjIiO3M6MTA6InR5cGVfZm9uZHMiO3M6MTE6ImFya29fc2VyaWVsIjtzOjQ6InJlZjEiO2k6NDtzOjQ6InJlZjIiO2k6MjU3ODc2O3M6MTY6InZpc2lvbm5ldXNlX2h0bWwiO2I6MTtzOjIxOiJ2aXNpb25uZXVzZV9odG1sX21vZGUiO3M6NDoicHJvZCI7fQ Archives numérisées de Paris: état-civil du 2me arrondissement
  3. http://jm.lecadre.free.fr/biographie.htm Biographie d'Auguste Toulmouche
  4. Gutsche-Miller, p. 66
  5. https://archive.org/details/nosauteursetcomp00martuoft/page/521/mode/1up Jules Martin, Nos auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques, 1897, p. 521
  6. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5618182d/f8.r=Toulmouche Le ménestrel, 27 Feb 1909, p. 72
  7. Gutsche-Miller, p. 305
  8. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3362423 "The Wedding Eve"
  9. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/497318763 "The Wedding Eve"
  10. News: Figures Nantaises . Le Phare de la Loire . 10 August 1910 . 2. fr . 21 October 2022.
  11. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k55716275.r=TOULMOUCHE.f157 Annuaire de la Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques, 1908
  12. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k55716045.image.r=TOULMOUCHE.f136 Annuaire de la Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques, 1909
  13. News: Nécrologie . . 27 January 1923 . 2. fr . 21 October 2022.
  14. https://archives.calvados.fr/ark:/52329/gj0wsd9lt1mk/6413f64a-e425-448d-a5cc-d9522407d233 État-civil de Riva-Bella/Ouistreham (Calvados), Table des décès 1923-1932
  15. https://archives.paris.fr/arkotheque/visionneuse/visionneuse.php?arko=YTo2OntzOjQ6ImRhdGUiO3M6MTA6IjIwMjItMTAtMjEiO3M6MTA6InR5cGVfZm9uZHMiO3M6MTE6ImFya29fc2VyaWVsIjtzOjQ6InJlZjEiO2k6NDtzOjQ6InJlZjIiO2k6MjE3OTg3O3M6MTY6InZpc2lvbm5ldXNlX2h0bWwiO2I6MTtzOjIxOiJ2aXNpb25uZXVzZV9odG1sX21vZGUiO3M6NDoicHJvZCI7fQ Archives numérisées de Paris: état-civil du 9me arrondissement
  16. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k7536037b/f1.r=TOULMOUCHE.zoom Gil Blas, 14 Feb 1909
  17. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k55819603.image.r=TOULMOUCHE.f172 Annuaire de la Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques, 1911
  18. https://www.geneanet.org/registres/view/210795/22?individu_filter=14702883 Cimetière de la Chapelle (Paris), Burials 1907-1909
  19. https://exhibits.stanford.edu/operadata/catalog?f%5BcomposerSort_facet%5D%5B%5D=Toulmouche%2C+Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric&f%5BcomposerSort_query%5D%5B%5D=t_composers&f%5Bsubgenre_facet%5D%5B%5D=Operetta&exhibit_id=operadata&search_field=search&q=Toulmouche "Toulmouche, Frédéric"

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