Arthur Coquard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French composer and music critic
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Arthur Coquard
- Arthur Coquard (26 May 1846 – 20 August 1910) was a French composer and music critic. He studied composition with César Franck, and was a music critic for Le Monde and L'Echo de Paris.
- He served as director of the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles (National Institute for Blind Children) from 1891–99. Coquard completed Edouard Lalo's opera, La jacquerie (1895).
- He also wrote the opera Jahel (1899) and the comic opera La troupe Jolicoeur (1902). He won a prize from the Académie des Beaux-Arts for his publication De la musique en France depuis Rameau.
- His most popular musical work was his setting of Haï Luli, which was included in several major anthologies of French songs.
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