Guercœur
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Guercœur is an opera in three acts by the French composer Albéric Magnard to his own libretto. It was first performed posthumously at the Paris Opéra on 24 April 1931, though it had mostly been written between 1897 and 1901. The music shows the influence of Wagner.
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- Composer
- Albéric Magnard
- Librettist
- Albéric Magnard
- Image
- Albéric Magnard - Guercœur - title page of the piano score - Paris 1904.png
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- date of first performance
- 1931-04-24
- location of first performance
- Paris Opera
- Commons category
- Guercœur
- language of work or name
- French
- publication date
- 2000-00-00
- form of creative work
- opera
- title
- Guercœur
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Guercœur is an opera in three acts by the French composer Albéric Magnard to his own libretto. It was first performed posthumously at the Paris Opéra on 24 April 1931, though it had mostly been written between 1897 and 1901. The music shows the influence of Wagner.
== History == Albéric Magnard, a composer whose chamber and symphonic works were performed, composed Guercœur as his second opera to his own libretto between 1897 and 1901. He then tried in vain to find a theatre ready to produce it. The composer died trying to save his house from the invading Germans at the beginning of World War I in 1914, and the score was partially destroyed in the resulting fire. Magnard's friend Guy Ropartz reconstructed the missing sections from the vocal score so the opera could be staged.
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