A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Bousquet, Georges

by Mary Catherine Hamilton

BOUSQUET, Georges, composer and critic, born at Perpignan 1818, died at St. Cloud 1854; entered the Conservatoire as violin pupil; won the Grand Prix in 1838; and his compositions while he held the prize, particularly two masses (Rome, 1839–40), excited hopes of a brilliant career. But his first opera, 'Le Mousquetaire,' produced at the Opera Comique in 1844, was a failure. 'Taburin' (1852) met with better success. For three seasons Bousquet conducted the orchestra at the Theatre Italien. He contributed articles to the 'Revue et Gazette musicale.'

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