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Charles Cuvillier (24 April 1877 – 14 February 1955) was a French composer of operetta. He won his greatest successes with the operettas ''La reine s'amuse'' (1912; played as ''The Naughty Princess'' in London) and with ''The Lilac Domino'', which became a hit in 1918 in London. ==Biography== Cuvillier was born in Paris, and studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Gabriel Fauré and Jules Massenet.〔Lamb Andrew, ("Cuvillier, Charles." ) ''Grove Music Online''. Oxford Music Online, accessed 8 March 2011 〕 He began writing for the Paris musical stage and had a success with ''Avant-hier matin'' (1905), a small scale work with piano accompaniment.〔(Cuvillier, Charles," ) ''Encyclopédie multimedia de la comédie musicale'' (French text), accessed 8 March 2011〕 Later stage works to achieve success in France and abroad included ''Son p'tit frère'' (1907), his first collaboration with André Barde, and ''La reine s'amuse'' (1912).〔 The latter (also known as ''La reine joyeuse'') featured Cuvillier's biggest hit, "Ah! la troublante volupté".〔 Before the First World War he made a career in Germany as well as France.〔 The second of his two works written for German theatres, ''Flora Bella'', was playing in Munich and had its run immediately brought to a stop when war was declared.〔("'Flora Bella' Lively Casino's New Opera", ) ''The New York Times'', 12 September 1916, accessed 8 March 2011〕 Cuvillier fought in the trenches against Germany during the war,〔"The Lilac Domino", ''The Observer'' February 24, 1918, p. 5〕 and thereafter made his career in France and the U.K.〔 Cuvillier was popular in England after the First World War. ''Avant-hier matin'' played with success in London as ''Wild Geese'',〔 and ''La reine joyeuse'' ran for 280 performances as ''The Naughty Princess''.〔Findon, B.W., "The Naughty Princess", ''The Play Pictorial'', October 1920, p. 86〕 His greatest international success was the operetta ''The Lilac Domino'', originally ''Der lila Domino'' (Leipzig, 1912).〔 The critic Andrew Lamb writes that Cuvillier composed "light, insinuating music, distinguished by typically French phrasing."〔 Cuvillier also composed film music, including ''Mon amant l'assassin'' (1931), ''Occupe-toi d'Amélie'' (1932) and ''Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre'' (1935).〔 Cuvillier died in Paris in 1955, at the age of 77.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Cuvillier」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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