Edmond Louis Joseph Arthur Roche (20 February 1828 in Calais – 24 December 1861 in Paris) was a 19th-century French poet, playwright, librettist and violinist.
A student of Habeneck at the Paris conservatory where he learned to play the violin (1842), he became first violinist of the orchestra of the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin before leaving this position to become a customs employee.Georges Servières, Tannhauser à l'opéra en 1861, 1895, p.8
Works A friend of Richard Wagner, he gave the first translation in French of Tannhäuser.Collectif, La controverse Wagner, 2013
His poésies were published in 1863 by Michel Lévy posthumously at the expense of his friends, with a preface by Victorien Sardou with engravings by Camille Corot and others.
1853: Mozart, étude poétique 1856: Les Algues, études marines 1859: Stradivarius 1859: Les Récréations enfantines 1860: L'Italie de nos jours 1861: Les Virtuoses contemporains 1863: La dernière fourberie de Scapin (À propos in one act in verse), (posthumous)
Bibliography Madeleine Guignebert, neÌe Duplessy, Henri Weitzmann, Le douanier de Wagner, Edmond Roche, 1861 Arthur Pougin, Supplément et complément, vol.2, 1881, (p. 427) Revue internationale de musique française, Vol.1, Slatkine, 1980,
References
External links Edmond Roche on BNF Travaux sur Edmond Roche