Charles Gounod was a french composer of some note (bad musical pun) who didn't write a huge amount of music that you know of but did compose a couple barn burner operas - Faust being the most famous. In that work he wrote some incidental music and if you remember your films, in the escape scene in Papillon (Hoffman, McQueen 1973), the inmate orchestra was playing that music. Another piece you might recognize was the "Funeral March of the Marionette" that became the theme song for the old Alfred Hitchcock TV series.
Anyway, I digress. He wrote this petite symphony and it is really very nice, pleasant music. It is very "French" in sound and feel, great tunes and just very very charming.
Anyway, I digress. He wrote this petite symphony and it is really very nice, pleasant music. It is very "French" in sound and feel, great tunes and just very very charming.
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