Arthur Coquard (26 May 1846 – 20 August 1910) was a French composer and music critic.

He studied composition with César Franck, and was a music critic for Le Monde and L'Echo de Paris. He served as director of the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles (National Institute for Blind Children) from 1891–99.

Arthur Coquard

Coquard completed Edouard Lalo's opera, La jacquerie (1895). He also wrote the opera Jahel (1899) and the comic opera La troupe Jolicoeur (1902).

Arthur Coquard

He won a prize from the Académie des Beaux-Arts for his publication De la musique en France depuis Rameau. His most popular musical work was his setting of Haï Luli, which was included in several major anthologies of French songs.

Arthur Coquard

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1846 births

1910 deaths

French composers

French male composers

French music critics

French male non-fiction writers

French opera composers

Male opera composers