
- •The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. In the 29-volume second edition. Grove Music Online /General Editor – Stanley Sadie. Oxford University Press. 2000 Gounod, Charles-François
- •1. Youth, early career, ambitions in the church.
- •2. Emergence into prominence.
- •3. Career apogee.
- •4. England.
- •5. Later career.
- •6. Songs and choruses.
- •7. Church music.
- •8. Operas.
- •9. Position in French music.
- •Other latin liturgical
- •Sacred or pious part-music in french or english
- •Secular partsongs
- •Oratorios, cantatas etc.
- •Sacred and pious songs
- •Secular songs
- •Children's songs and partsongs
- •Orchestral and band
- •Instrumental chamber
- •Other instrumental
- •Writings
- •Bibliography letters
- •Biographical and general critical studies
- •Specialized critical studies
Children's songs and partsongs
for equal voices, unaccompanied unless otherwise stated
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later published for solo voice, piano
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La prière et l'étude, ou L'emploi de la journée (C. Turpin), 3–4vv (?1853–5): L'arithméthique, La musique, La récréation, La géographie, L'écriture, La lecture, La grammaire, Le dessin, L'histoire de France, L'histoire sainte, La prière du matin, La prière du soir, Reine des cieux, L'action de grâce, Le catéchisme, Le bénédicité, L'angélus
Paraissez, roi des rois, chant de prix, 3vv (1854); Les pauvres du bon Dieu, 3vv (1854); *Le temps qui fuit et qui s’envole, 3vv (1855); *Les vacances (L. Bigorie), 3vv (?1855); *La distribution des prix, 3vv (1855); Le jour des prix (E. Scribe), 3vv (?1855); Un rêve (M. Spenner), 4vv (1855); *Le nid (A. Quételard), 3vv, pf (?1855); Les couronnes (E. Plouvier), choeurs composés pour distributions de prix, 2vv, pf/unacc. (1856, 2/1886): 1 Le travail béni, 2 La fête des couronnes, 3 Dieu partout; Cantate pour jeunes filles (pour la distribution des prix) (Turpin), 3vv, pf (1856)
Fêtes des écoles (A. Lefevre), 3–4vv (1856); Livrons nos coeurs à l'espérance, 3vv (1856); Aux amis de l'enfance (n.d.); *Le rosier blanc (Spenner), 3vv (1857); *Bonjour, bon soir (Spenner), 3vv (1857); *L'ange gardien (A Quételard), 4vv (1858); *Patte de velours (Spenner), 3vv (1858); *La jeune fille et la fauvette (E. de la Chauvinière), 1v, pf (1860), also for 3vv; Enfants au doux visage (La Chauvinière), 1v, pf (1868); Le mois de Marie, cantique, 1v/unison vv, pf/org (1868) [also pubd as Prière à la vièrge]; La charité (La Chauvinière), 3vv (?1883)
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Orchestral and band
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Scherzo, 1837, unpubd
Symphony no.1, D (1855)
Symphony no.2, E , perf. 1856 (late 1850s)
Marche pontificale (Marche romaine), for anniversary of coronation of Pius IX (1869)
Saltarello (London, ?1865)
Funeral March of a Marionette, d, pf (London, 1872), orchd (1879)
Marche-Fanfare, E , brass band, for 12th Hussars, arr. pf 4 hands (London, 1876)
Marche religieuse (Marche festivale), C, arr. pf 4 hands/org/hmn (1876), fs (1878)
Marche solennelle, E , arr. pf 2/4 hands/org (London, 1878)
Wedding March no.2, A, for wedding of Duke of Albany, 1882, arr. pf 2/4 hands/org (London, 1882)
Fantaisie sur l'hymne national russe, pedal pf, orch (1886)
Suite concertante, pedal pf, orch, arr. 2 pf by Saint-Saëns (1888)
Danse roumaine, pedal pf, orch, arr. Band (1890), 2 pf (1896)
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Instrumental chamber
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6 mélodies, g, E , B , c–C, F, B , hn, pf (c1840–48)
Méditation sur le 1er Prélude de piano de J.S. Bach, pf, vn/vc, org/vc ad lib (1853) [arr. solo song)
Méditation sur Faust, pf, hmn, vn/vc (1861)
Hymne à Sainte Cécile (vn solo, hps, timp, wind, db) (vn, org, pf) (1865); other inst arrs.; arr. as Ave verum (c1878)
Méditation, B , pf, org, vn/vc (1873); arr. from an aria in La nonne sanglante; earlier arr. as Le calme, 4e chanson sans paroles, pf solo (1865)
Cinq mars, fantaisie concertante, pf, vn (1878)
Wedding March no.1, C, 3 trb, org, for wedding of Duke of Albany, 1882 (London, 1882)
Petite étude-scherzo, D, 2 db (1885)
Meditation on The Arrow and the Song, D, pf, vn/cornet, vc, org (London, 1886)
String Quartet, g, unpubd
Petit quatuor (str qt), C, unpubd, F-Pn
String Quartet no.2, A (ded. Morsick, Rémy, Van Waefelghen, Delsart), unpubd, F-Pn
String Quartet no.3 (ded. Mme. Dergenétais), unpubd, F-Pn
String Quartet no.3 [sic], a(1895)
Petite symphonie, fl, 2 ob, 2cl, 2 hn, 2 bn, composed 1885 (1904)
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piano
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Valse (1854); L'angélus, petit morceau très facile, C, 4 hands (1858) Menuet, g, 4 hands (1858); Valse caractéristique, D, 2/4 hands (1861); 2 romances sans paroles (1861): 1 La pervenche, B, 2 Le ruisseau, G ; Marche nuptiale, F, 2/4 hands (1861); Les pifferari, impromptu très facile, F (1861); Le bal d'enfants, valse facile, C (1861); Musette, impromptu, a (1863); Royal-Menuet, C (1863); Georgina, valse, D (1864), as Grand Valse in D (London, 1877)
Le calme, 4e romance sans paroles, D (1865) [arr. from an aria in La nonne sanglante]; Valse des fiancés, D, 2/4 hands (1865); Souvenance, nocturne, E (1865); Le rendez-vous, suite de valses, D, composed 1847, pf 2/4 hands (1866), orch (London, 1887); Ivy (Le lierre), romance sans paroles, B (London, 1871); Funeral March of a Marionette, d (London, 1872), orchd (1878); Dodelinette, lullaby, G, 4 hands (London, 1872), arr. 2 hands (London, 1873), other arrs.; Choral et musette, F (1874)
Trois petits morceaux pour enfants, 4 hands (before 1875): La nacelle, C, La rosière, G, Le page, C; La valse des sylphes, A (1874); La veneziana, barcarolle, g (1874); Prélude, c (1877); Matinée de mai, in L'illustration (1896), suppl. to no.2761
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