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French poet and librettist
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Birth:
20 February 1828(Calais, Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France)
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24 December 1861(Paris, Seine, Île-de-France, France)
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The details
Biography
Introduction
Edmond Louis Joseph Arthur Roche (20 February 1828 in Calais – 24 December 1861 in Paris) was a 19th-century French poet, playwright, librettist and violinist.
A student of Habeneck at the Paris conservatory where he learned to play the violin (1842), he became first violinist of the orchestra of the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin before leaving this position to become a customs employee.
Works
A friend of Richard Wagner, he gave the first translation in French of Tannhäuser.
His poésies were published in 1863 by Michel Lévy posthumously at the expense of his friends, with a preface by Victorien Sardou with engravings by Camille Corot and others.
- 1853: Mozart, étude poétique
- 1856: Les Algues, études marines
- 1859: Stradivarius
- 1859: Les Récréations enfantines
- 1860: L'Italie de nos jours
- 1861: Les Virtuoses contemporains
- 1863: La dernière fourberie de Scapin (À propos in one act in verse), (posthumous)