Vaucorbeil, Auguste-Emmanuel
(1821–1884)> ADMINISTRATOR
Vaucorbeil, Auguste-Emmanuel (15 December 1821, Rouen; 2 November 1884, Paris), administrator, studied at the Conservatoire in Paris under the direction of Jean-François Marmontel and Luigi Cherubini (see eighteenth-century volume for Marmontel and Cherubini). He wrote a few pieces for the theatre that had limited success, and he was named government commissioner for Paris theatres in 1872. He served as director of the Paris Opéra between 1879 and 1884, and the six years of his tenure saw the…