Messager

(més-si-zha), André (Chas. Prosper), Montlucon, Allier, France, Dec. 30, 1853—Paris, Feb. 24, 1929; pupil of Nie der meyer School and of Saint-Saéns; 1874, organist of the choir, St. Sulpice; cond. at Bru els; St.-Paul-Saint-Louis; Paris, cond. at Sainte Marie des Batignolles; 1898-1903, cond. Op. Com.; Chev. of the Legion of Honour; 1901-07, mus.-dir. Covent Garden, London; 1907—19, one of directors of the Opéra at Paris, and from 1908 cond. of the concerts of the Cons.; t919-20, dir. Op.-Comique; Bernicat’s score, “Franco is les Bas Bleus” (Folies-Dramatiques, 1883), following it with about 20 other comic operettas, and operas, incl. the succ. “Le Chevalier d’ Harmental”’ (Op.Com., 1896); “La Basoche” (Op.Com., 1890, Bremen, 1892, “Zwet Konige”); ‘Mirette’ (Savoy, London, 1894); “Les P’tites Michu” (Paris, 1894) succe ; “Véronique” (1899); ‘“Fortunio” (Op. (Monte Com. 1907); ‘Be at rice’? Carlo, 1914); operetta, ‘‘L’ Amour Masqué’” (Paris, 1923); mus. comedy, “Pa ionnément” (do., 1926); the ballets, “Scaramouche,” “Les Deux Pigeons’’, songs, etc. (ma’-shart), Johannes, Hoorn, Holland, 1857—Zurich, 1922; barytone; pupil of Schneider, Stock hausen and Wiillner; teacher and cond. in Amsterdam; toured widely.