Charles-François Gounod: portrait by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, pencil, Rome, 1841 (Art Institute of Chicago)
Charles-François Gounod: portrait by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, pencil, Rome, 1841 (Art Institute of Chicago)
Scene from Act 1 of Gounod’s ‘Sapho’, first performed at the Paris Opéra, 16 April 1851, with Pauline Viardot in the title role: engraving from ‘L’illustration’ (26 April 1851)
Scene from Act 1 of Gounod’s ‘Sapho’, first performed at the Paris Opéra, 16 April 1851, with Pauline Viardot in the title role: engraving from ‘L’illustration’ (26 April 1851)
Jean-Baptiste Faure (left) as Méphistophélès and Giovanni Mario as Faust, with the vision of Marguerite in the background, in Act 1 of Gounod’s ‘Faust’, Covent Garden, London, 1864: lithograph from a contemporary sheet-music cover
Jean-Baptiste Faure (left) as Méphistophélès and Giovanni Mario as Faust, with the vision of Marguerite in the background, in Act 1 of Gounod’s ‘Faust’, Covent Garden, London, 1864: lithograph from a contemporary sheet-music cover
Gounod, Charles-François 6. Songs and choruses.: Ex.1 Le vallon (1861)
Gounod, Charles-François 6. Songs and choruses.: Ex.1 Le vallon (1861)
Gounod, Charles-François 6. Songs and choruses.: Ex.2 Heureux sera le jour’ (1872)
Gounod, Charles-François 6. Songs and choruses.: Ex.2 Heureux sera le jour’ (1872)
Gounod, Charles-François 6. Songs and choruses.: Ex.3 ‘Repentir’ (1894)
Gounod, Charles-François 6. Songs and choruses.: Ex.3 ‘Repentir’ (1894)
Gounod, Charles-François 7. Church music.: Ex.4 ‘La rédemption’ (1882)
Gounod, Charles-François 7. Church music.: Ex.4 ‘La rédemption’ (1882)
Gounod, Charles-François 7. Church music.: Ex.5 ‘Mors et vita’ (1885)
Gounod, Charles-François 7. Church music.: Ex.5 ‘Mors et vita’ (1885)
Charles-François Gounod in his study: engraving from ‘L’illustration’ (28 October 1893)
Charles-François Gounod in his study: engraving from ‘L’illustration’ (28 October 1893)
