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Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 17 June 1818
- Died
- 18 October 1893
- Place of birth
- Paris
- Place of death
- Saint-Cloud
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Charles-François
- Family name
- Gounod
- Father
- François-Louis Gounod
- Spouse
- Anna Zimmerman
- Child
- Jean Gounod
- Movement
- classical music
- Genre
- opera, symphony, classical music, oratorio
- Occupation
- classical composer, musicologist, music educator, organist, composer
- Position held
- chapelmaster
- Citizenship
- France
- Native language
- French
- Awards
- Prix de Rome, Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal, Commander of the Legion of Honour, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour
- birth name
- Charles-François Gounod
- cause of death
- stroke
- described by source
- Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Larousse Encyclopedia online, Riemann's Music Dictionary, BEIC Digital Library, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Albert Edelfelt's letters, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 3, Brief Biographical Dictionary of Foreign Composers
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- educated at
- Conservatoire de Paris, Lycée Saint-Louis
- has works in the collection
- Procuratoria di San Marco musical archive, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
- influenced by
- Fanny Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn
- instrument
- organ
- languages spoken, written or signed
- French
- list of works
- list of compositions by Charles Gounod
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- Académie des beaux-arts
- name in native language
- Charles Gounod
- notable work
- Faust, Roméo et Juliete, Funeral March of a Marionette
- place of burial
- Auteuil Cemetery
- related category
- Category:Compositions by Charles Gounod
- student of
- Anton Reicha, Fromental Halévy
- topic's main category
- Category:Charles Gounod
- writing language
- French
Connected on Wikidata
Author of
- Gallia (1896)
- Jeanne d’Arc (Gounod)
- Gallia
- Messe de Sainte-Cecile
- She alone charmeth my sadness = Wrth dy draed, hudol unbennes : Irene
- The flower song = Cân y blodau : Faust
- The jewel song
- She alone charmeth my sadness = Wrth dy draed, hudol unbennes : Irene
- The jewel song
- O fy nhelyn anfarwol = O ma lyre immortelle : o Sapho
- Au printemps = Yn y Gwanwyn
- Sanctus = Sanctaidd : Offeren Sant Cecilia : Gounod
Composer of
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