Camille Erlanger

Camille Erlanger (25 May 1863 – 24 April 1919) was a French opera composer. He studied at the Paris Conservatory under Léo Delibes (composition), Georges Mathias (piano), as well as Émile Durand and Antoine Taubon (harmony).^[1] In 1888 he won the Prix de Rome for his cantata Velléda. His most famous opera, Le Juif polonais, was produced at the Opéra-Comique in 1900.

Erlanger died in Paris and was buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery.^[2]

A street in Quebec City, Avenue Erlanger, is named after Erlanger.^[3]

Works

Poster from the première of Le juif polonais

Velléda, scène lyrique (1888), given at the Concerts Colonne in 1889
La Légende de Saint-Julien l'Hospitalier, légende dramatique in three acts and seven tableaux, after the story by Gustave Flaubert, (1888)
Kermaria, drame lyrique in three acts, libretto by Pierre-Barthélemy Gheusi, Opéra-Comique 8 February 1897
Faublas, libretto by Pierre-Barthélemy Gheusi, 1897
Le Juif polonais, after a novel by Erckmann-Chatrian, Opéra-Comique, 11 April 1900
Le Fils de l'étoile, drame musical in five acts, libretto by Catulle Mendès, 20 April 1904, Palais Garnier
La Glu, drame lyrique after the novel by Jean Richepin
Aphrodite, drame musical in five acts and seven tableaux after the novel by Pierre Louÿs, adaptation by Louis de Gramont, 23 (or 27 ?) March 1906, Opéra-Comique
Bacchus triomphant, 11 September 1909, Bordeaux
L'aube rouge, 29 December 1911, Rouen
Hannele Mattern, rêve lyrique in five acts (1911), libretto by Jean Thorel and Louis-Ferdinand de Gramont (1854–1912) after the drama Hanneles Himmelfahrt by Gerhart Hauptmann, 28 January 1950, Strasbourg (Opéra du Rhin)
La Sorcière, 18 December 1912, Paris
Le Barbier de Deauville, 1917
La Forfaiture, 1921, Paris

La Forfaiture, based on the 1915 film The Cheat, is the first opera to be based on a film scenario.^[4]

^ Jacobshagen, Arnold: "Erlanger, Camille", in: Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MMG), biographical part, vol. 6 (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2001; ISBN 3-7618-1116-0), cc. 437.
^ Bauer, Paul (2006). Mémoire et Documents (ed.). Deux siècles d'histoire au Père Lachaise. Mémoire & documents. p. 316. ISBN 978-2914611480.
^ "Fiche descriptive : Avenue Erlanger". Commission de toponymie du Québec. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
^ Miyao, D. (2007). Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom. Duke University Press. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-8223-3969-4. Retrieved 24 May 2022.

Forbes, Elizabeth (1992), 'Erlanger, Camille' in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London) ISBN 0-333-73432-7

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