Antoine Ferdinand Oscar de Lagoanère (24 August 1851 – 23 May 1918) was a French composer and conductor from Bordeaux.[1][2] He was a conductor for several theaters and wrote numerous operettas.[3] From 1908 to 1914 he was the director of music for the Théâtre de la Gaîté in Paris.[4] His works include Les deux panthères, Fillette et loup-Garou, Un ménage au violon, L'étape d'un 27 jours, Il était une fois, Le cocheur de la mariée, Néron, Les sept péchés capitaux, Le cadeau d'Alain, and L'habit de César. He also wrote the music for Voyage à travers l'impossible (Journey Through the Impossible), an 1882 play by Jules Verne and Adolphe d'Ennery.[5] He died in Paris on 23 May 1918.

References

  1. ↑ Etat-civil de Bordeaux Section 1, Registre des naissances de 1851, acte n°1240 (several sources erroneously give 1853 as birth year).
  2. ↑ Archives numérisées de Paris: état-civil du 17me arrondissement, Registre des décès de 1918, 17D203, acte n°1557 (view 16/21).
  3. ↑ Martin, Jules (1897). Nos auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques. Paris: Flammarion. p. 319.
  4. ↑ Slonimsky, Nicolas; Kuhn, Laura; McIntire, Dennis. "Lagoanère, Oscar de". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
  5. ↑ Theodoropoulou, Athanasia (2009). Stories of Initiation for the Modern Age: Explorations of Textual and Theatrical Fantasy in Jules Verne's Voyage à travers l'impossible and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials (Thesis). University of Edinburgh. p. 5. hdl:1842/4294. Retrieved 17 April 2021.


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