French composer
Frédéric-Michel Toulmouche (4 August 1850 – 23 February 1909) was a French composer, who specialised in light theatrical music for small theatres.
Biography.
Toulmouche was born in Nantes, in a well-to-do family counting several artists (the painter Auguste Toulmouche was his cousin). After his studies at the Nantes Lycée, he went to Paris to study with Victor Massé at the Conservatoire de Paris. He became known as a composer of opéras comiques and opérettes, the best known of which were "La veillée des noces", "Mademoiselle ma femme", "La perle du Cantal", "La Saint-Valentin" and "Tante Agnes". In the latter part of his career Toulmouche composed ballet scores for French music-halls, and was the "chef de chant" (vocal coach), for the Opéra-Comique, Paris.
Little of Toulmouche's music was given abroad. His "Le moûtier de Saint-Guignolet" (Brussels, 1885, revised 1888) was performed in an English adaptation as "The Wedding Eve" as the opening production of the Trafalgar Square Theatre, London, in 1892. "The Musical Times" commented that it was prudent of the management to commission Ernest Ford and "Yvolde" (Alfred Moul) to strengthen Toulmouche's score.
In 1908, Toulmouche was struck by a brain haemorrhage. His last works ("La môme Flora" and "Chez la somnambule") were finished in collaboration with his son, Eddy Toulmouche. Actually Eddy Toulmouche (aka Edy Toulmouche) is probably the artist name of his step-son, Frédéric Louis de Jonghe (1886?–23 Jan 1923), son of his wife, Marie Louise Dureau, and her first husband, the Belgian painter Gustave de Jonghe (1828–1893).
Frédéric Toulmouche died in Paris, aged 58.
He was buried at the Paris La Chapelle cemetery on 25 Feb 1909.
Works.
Toulmouche's works include: 
References.
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