Guiraud, Ernest
(1837–1892)> COMPOSER
Guiraud, Ernest (23 June 1837, New Orleans; 6 May 1892, Paris), composer, was given his musical training by his father, who had won the Prix de Rome competition in Paris before leaving France for the New World. When he was 12, his father took him back to Paris to give him an idea of his patrimony and to obtain a collection of librettos to use in his son’s exercises in dramatic composition. Le Roi David was among these books, and the young man is said to have set Auguste Mermet ’s poem and to…