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Оглавление(1860–1956)
Louise (1900)
Not to be confused with the earlier Marc-Antoine Charpentier who wrote a famous Messe de Minuit and several less-famous pastoral operas in French Baroque taste, Gustave Charpentier was a student of Massenet at the late 19th-century Paris Conservatoire. He began work on the one and only score for which he is known, Louise, while still studying there. An urban low-life forerunner of La Bohème, Louise was an instant success and Charpentier rested on its laurels ever after, writing little in the last half-century of his life beyond a sequel, Julien, that reworked already-written music and never caught on.
