Noun
French composer best remembered for his operas (1818-1893)
Source: WordNetCox noted that Elgar disliked folk-songs and never used them in his works, opting for an idiom that was essentially German, leavened by a lightness derived from French composers including Berlioz and Gounod. Source: Internet
"Sir Arthur Sullivan", The Pall Mall Magazine, vol. 23, No. 94, February 1901, p. 255 In early pieces, he imitated Mendelssohn (for example in his incidental music for The Tempest), Auber in his Henry VIII music and Gounod in The Light of the World. Source: Internet
Hervé's most famous works are the Gounod -parody Le Petit Faust (1869) and Mam'zelle Nitouche (1883). Source: Internet
He mimed Tchaikovsky and Gounod, the Beethoven piano sonatas, the symphonies of Haydn, the operas of Pergolesi and Glinks. Source: Internet
Micaëla's music has been criticised for its "Gounodesque" elements, although Dean maintains that her music has greater vitality than that of any of Gounod 's own heroines. Source: Internet
The best-known is Gounod 's 1867 Roméo et Juliette (libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré ), a critical triumph when first performed and frequently revived today. Source: Internet