Ferdinand Hérold

Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold (28 January 1791 – 19 January 1833), better known as Ferdinand Hérold (pronounced [fɛʁdinɑ̃ eʁɔld]), was a French composer. He was celebrated in his lifetime for his operas, of which he composed more than twenty, but he also wrote ballet music, works for piano and choral pieces. He is best known today for the ballet La Fille mal gardée and the overture to the opera Zampa.

Born in Paris to a musical family, Hérold trained at the Paris Conservatoire and won France's premier musical prize, the Prix de Rome in 1812. After a time in Italy he returned to Paris and worked first at the Théâtre Italien and then at the Opéra. He wrote several ballets for the latter, but was best known as a composer of opéra comique. Some of them particularly in his early days, were hampered by poor librettos, but later he had more successes than failures, and his last two operas, Zampa (1831) and Le Pré aux clercs (The Clerk's Meadow, 1832) were immensely popular, and remained in the repertory in France and elsewhere for decades after his early death from tuberculosis in 1833.

As a ballet composer Hérold was a pioneer, raising the standard of ballet scores from being simple arrangements of popular tunes to well-orchestrated music illustrating the action of the ballets. His operas influenced later composers from Bizet and Offenbach to Wagner and Smetana.

Birth and Death Data: Born 1791 (10 rue Hérold), Died January 19, 1833 (Paris)

Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1900 - 1933

Roles Represented in DAHR: composer

Notes: Louis Joseph Ferdinand Hérold

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Recordings (Results 1-25 of 42 records)

Company Matrix No. Size First Recording Date Title Primary Performer Description Role Audio
Berliner 01066 7-in. 3/13/1900 Zampa : Overture Royal Italian Band Band composer  
Victor [Pre-matrix A-]140 7-in. 7/14/1900 Zampa Voss First Regiment Band Band composer  
Victor [Pre-matrix B-]363 10-in. 1/3/1902 Zampa overture Sousa's Band Band composer  
Victor [Pre-matrix A-]363 7-in. 10/4/1900 Zampa overture Sousa's Band Band composer  
Victor C-2035 12-in. 12/9/1904 Zampa : Overture Sousa's Band Band composer  
Victor B-2035 10-in. 12/9/1904 Zampa : Overture Sousa's Band Band composer  
Victor E-3981 8-in. 11/5/1906 Souvenirs du jeune âge Edouard Le Bel Tenor vocal solo, with piano composer  
Victor B-18858 10-in. 12/20/1916 Souvenirs du jeune âge Eva Gauthier Mezzo-soprano vocal solo, with orchestra composer  
Victor C-26549 12-in. 6/19/1922 Zampa : Overture Victor Symphony Orchestra Orchestra composer  
Victor C-26550 12-in. 6/20/1922 Zampa : Overture Nathaniel Shilkret ; Victor Symphony Orchestra Orchestra composer  
Victor CVE-55656 12-in. 8/28/1929 Zampa : Overture Victor Symphony Orchestra Orchestra composer  
Victor CVE-55657 12-in. 8/28/1929 Zampa : Overture Victor Symphony Orchestra Orchestra composer  
Victor CS-77047 12-in. 10/5/1933 Zampa overture American Legion Band [Monahan Post, Sioux City, Iowa] ; Leo Kucinski Band composer  
Victor CS-77048 12-in. 10/5/1933 Zampa overture American Legion Band [Monahan Post, Sioux City, Iowa] ; Leo Kucinski Band composer  
Columbia 248 10-in. ca. 1901 Zampa : Overture Columbia Band Band composer  
Columbia 248 7-in. ca. 1901 Zampa : Overture Columbia Band Band composer  
Columbia 48594 12-in. 2/9/1916 Zampa : Overture Prince's Orchestra Orchestra composer  
Columbia 48595 12-in. 2/9/1916 Zampa : Overture Prince's Orchestra Orchestra composer  
Columbia 98022 12-in. 4/13/1922 Zampa : Overture Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Orchestra composer  
Columbia 5705 12-in. 1907 Overture Banda Española Band composer  
Columbia 76208 12-in. 8/7/1918 Zampa overture, part 1 New Queen's Hall Orchestra ; Henry J. Wood Orchestra composer  
Columbia 76209 12-in. 8/7/1918 Zampa overture, part 2 New Queen's Hall Orchestra ; Henry J. Wood Orchestra composer  
Brunswick X14145 12-in. 11/6/1924 Zampa : Overture Vessella's Italian Band Band composer  
Brunswick X14146-X14147 12-in. 11/7/1924 Zampa : Overture Vessella's Italian Band Band composer  
Brunswick X14148-X14150 12-in. 11/7/1924 Zampa : Overture Vessella's Italian Band Band composer  
(Results 1-25 of 42 records)

Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Hérold, Ferdinand," accessed October 31, 2024, https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/103294.

Hérold, Ferdinand. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved October 31, 2024, from https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/103294.

"Hérold, Ferdinand." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 31 October 2024.

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URI: https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/103294

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