[GOUNOD (Charles François, 1818-1893, French Composer)]

Signature with place and date mounted with a fine Unsigned carte de visite Portrait Photograph, showing him head and shoulders in a coat, wearing a close fitting fur hat, 4" x 2½", London, 21st May

Gounod stayed in England in the 1870s and wrote many well known works such as "Oh happy home" (words by Edward Maitland, 1872), "If thou art sleeping, maiden" (Longfellow, 1872 or 1873) and "The Worker" (Frederic Weatherly, 1873). Gounod's time in Britain also produced arrangements of Scottish folk songs, and settings of poetry by Wordsworth, Charles Kingsley, Thomas Hood, Byron, Shelley and Francis Palgrave.

Item Date:  1872

Stock No:  41017      £225

             Add to Wish List     Order/Enquire