Edmond Audran

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Achille Edmond Audran (1840 – 17 August 1901) was a French composer best known for several internationally successful comedy operas, including Les noces d'Olivette (1879), La cigale et la fourmi (1890), and La poupée (1896). Audran's initial success in Paris, his work also became a regular fixture in London's West End, thanks to Audran's supervision.

The bulk of his experiments are now neglected, but La mascotte has been revived occasionally and his gramophone has been registered.

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Early life and career

Audran was born in Lyon, the son of Marius-Pierre Audran (1816–87), who spent his life as a tenor at the Opéra-Comique. He studied music at École Niedermeyer under Jules Duprato, where he received the prize for composition in 1859. His family immigrated to Marseille, France, where his father accepted the post of singing tutor and later became the conservator.

Audran became organist of the Cathedral of St Joseph in 1873, which also included writing religious music. With L'Ours et le Pacha (1862), a musical adaptation of one of Eugène Scribe's vaindevilles, he made his first appearance as a dramatic composer at Marseilles. This was followed by La Chercheuse d'Esprit (1864), a comedic opera that was also produced in Marseille. Audran's compositions included a funeral march on Giacomo Meyerbeer's death; a few songs in the Provençal dialect; and several sacred works; and others. He produced a Mass (Marseille, 1873), an oratorio, La sulamite (Marseille, 1876), Adoro te, a motet (Paris, 1882), and numerous minor works, but he is best known as a light opera composer.

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