Charles François Gounod

Standard Name: Gounod, Charles François
Used Form: Charles Francois Gounod

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Mary Cowden Clarke
Their visitors at Nice included the Chaucerian Francis Child , the American writer Mrs. John (Elizabeth) Farrar , and the political activist Richard Cobden .
Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead, 1896.
147-8
MCC continued to delight in new acquaintances until late...
Leisure and Society Mary Cowden Clarke
At Salzburg in 1879 MCC heard Hans Richter conducting the Vienna Orchestra (now the Vienna Philharmonic), and thought him the best conductor she had ever heard, superior even to Mendelssohn.
Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead, 1896.
184
In London in 1881...
Literary responses Cecil Frances Alexander
Gounod claimed that this was the most perfect hymn in the English language because of its simplicity.
McMahon, Séan. “All Things Bright and Beautiful”. Éire-Ireland: A Journal of Irish Studies, Vol.
10
, No. 4, Irish American Cultural Institute, 1995, pp. 101-9.
108
There is a green hill far away,
Without a city wall,
Where the dear Lord was crucified...
Textual Features Cecil Frances Alexander
A didactic
McMahon, Séan. “All Things Bright and Beautiful”. Éire-Ireland: A Journal of Irish Studies, Vol.
10
, No. 4, Irish American Cultural Institute, 1995, pp. 101-9.
106
style of lyric came naturally to CFA , through her experience teaching young children.
McMahon, Séan. “All Things Bright and Beautiful”. Éire-Ireland: A Journal of Irish Studies, Vol.
10
, No. 4, Irish American Cultural Institute, 1995, pp. 101-9.
106, 108
She set out here with the intention of providing for Sunday school use a hymn to...
Textual Production Susan Tweedsmuir
The title is that of a tune by Charles Gounod , composed in 1872 (and more recently associated with the name of Alfred Hitchcock ). ST submitted the manuscript by 19 November 1934.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols.
5: 347
Travel Evelyn Sharp
This was a rich period spent in studying, hearing Renan lecture, meeting Louis Pasteur at the Pasteur Institute , and hearing Charles Gounod conduct his Ave Maria at St Sulpice.
Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933.
45-6
But ES was...

Timeline

: London omnibuses carried an advertisement...

Building item

Summer 1887

London omnibuses carried an advertisement featuring Society beauty Georgina Weldon , captioned, I am 50 today, but thanks to Pears Soap my complexion is only 17.
Turner, Ernest Sackville. “Don’t lock up the wife”. London Review of Books, 5 Oct. 2000, pp. 30-1.
30-1

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