Bourgault-Ducoudray, Louis
(1840–1910)> COMPOSER
Bourgault-Ducoudray, Louis (2 February 1840, Nantes; 4 July 1910, Vernouillet, Seine-et-Oise), composer, intended to pursue a career as a lawyer because his family had strong connections with the government of the Second Empire, but his interest in music led him to enter the Conservatoire in Paris. Here, he studied under Ambroise Thomas , and, in 1862, he won first prize in composition for his cantata entitled Louise de Mézières . He became known to Parisians in 1868, when his Stabat Mater was…