Louis Ganne
1862 — 1923
Louis-Gaston Ganne was a conductor and composer of French operas, operettas, ballets, and marches.
Adapted from the Wikipedia article on Louis Ganne.
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Louis Ganne, a French composer born in 1862, received his musical training at the Paris Conservatory, where he was a pupil of Th. Dubois and Cl. Franck, according to A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1900). He became known as a popular composer of ballets, pantomimes, and divertissements, with works such as the vaudeville Tout-Paris (1891), the comic opera Rabelais (1892), and the vaudeville-operetta Les colles des femmes (1893) to his credit. Beyond his stage works, Ganne also published approximately fifty light piano pieces, a dozen for four hands, and numerous songs described as “much in vogue” by A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1900). His career also included significant conducting roles, serving as chef d’orchestre for the balls at the Paris Opéra and as first chef d’orchestre at the municipal Casino at Royan. Later, he was a conductor at Monte Carlo, where, as Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians: American Supplement (1920) notes, violinist Fredric Fradkin was concertmaster of the Louis Ganne Orchestra in 1910-11. Ganne passed away in Paris in 1923, as recorded in The New Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians (1924).