Maurice Ordonneau
Maurice Ordonneau (18 June 1854 – 14 November 1916) was a French dramatist and composer. The son of a merchant of eau de vie, Ordonneau was a prolific author in creating theatrical works. He composed, often with the collaboration of other playwrights, composers and musicians, a great number of operettas, opéra-bouffes, comedies and vaudevilles.
Maurice Ordonneau

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- Born
- 18 June 1854
- Birthplace
- Saintes
- Died
- 14 November 1916
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- Dramatist and composer.
- Nationality
- France
- Movements
- classical music
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Languages
- French
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Maurice Ordonneau (18 June 1854 – 14 November 1916) was a French dramatist and composer. The son of a merchant of eau de vie, Ordonneau was a prolific author in creating theatrical works. He composed, often with the collaboration of other playwrights, composers and musicians, a great number of operettas, opéra-bouffes, comedies and vaudevilles.
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Biography
During some months after the death of the playwright Jean Gascogne, Ordonneau was responsible for the drama critic at La Libre Parole
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• Born — 18 June 1854 • Birthplace — Saintes • Died — 14 November 1916 • Place of death — Paris • Occupation — Dramatist and composer.
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Versailles.
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• 1874: Les Rosières de carton, comedy, with Henry Buguet • 1876: La Bague de Turlurette, comedy with Ernest Hamm • 1876: Les Vacances de Toto, Comédie en vaudevilles, with Victor Bernard • 1877: Zigzags dans Versailles, comedy, with Ernest Hamm • 1877: Les Cris-Cris de Paris, comedy • 1878: Minuit moins cinq!, vaudeville, with Victor Bernard • 1879: L'Assommoir pour rire, vaudeville • 1880: Théâtre de famille, operetta with Gustave Nadaud, with Eugène Verconsin • 1880: Les Deux chambres, operetta • 1881: Madame Grégoire, operetta, with Paul Burani • 1883: L'Heure du berger, vaudeville • 1883: Le Réveil de Vénus, comedy, with Paul Burani, with Henri Cermoise • 1883: Les Parisiens en province, comedy with Hippolyte Raymond • 1885: L'Ablette, comedy • 1885: Les Petites Godin, vaudeville • 1885: Mon oncle!, comédie-bouffe, with Paul Burani • 1885: Cherchons papa, vaudeville, with Victor Bernard • 1886: Serment d'amour, opéra comique, with Edmond Audran • 1887: La Princesse Colombine, opéra comique, with Émile André • 1887: La Fiancée des verts poteaux, opéra comique, with Edmond Audran • 1887: Durand & Durand, vaudeville • 1887: Maître Corbeau, comedy, with Hippolyte Raymond • 1888: La Poupée, opéra comique after Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, with Edmond Audran • 1888: Monsieur Coq-Héron l'avoué, comedy, with Paul Siraudin, with Alfred Delacour, Hippolyte Raymond and Lambert-Thiboust, • 1891: L'oncle Célestin, opérette bouffe, with Edmond Audran and Henri Kéroul • 1891: La Petite Poucette, vaudeville-opérette, with Maurice Hennequin and Raoul Pugno • 1891: Les Boulinard, operetta • 1892: La Femme du commissaire, vaudeville • 1892: La Plantation Thomassin, vaudeville, with Albert Vizentini • 1893: Mademoiselle ma femme, opéra comique, with Frédéric Toulmouche, libretto cosigned with Octave Pradels • 1893: Madame Suzette, operetta, with André Sylvane and Edmond Audran • 1893: Cousin-cousine, operetta, with Henri Kéroul, with Gaston Serpette • 1894: La Vertu de Lolotte, comedy • 1895: L'Article 214, comedy, with André Sylvane • 1895: La Marraine de Charley, comédie-bouffe, with Brandon Thomas • 1895: Au coin du feu, operetta • 1895: La St-Valentin, opéra comique • 1895: La Perle du Cantal, operetta • 1895: Le Pèlerinage, comedy, with Maxime Boucheron • 1896: La falote, opérette, with Louis Varney and Armand Liorat • 1896: Paris quand même! ou Les deux bigorret, comédie-bouffe, with Ernest Grenet-Dancourt • 1897: Niobé, opérette, with Harry Paulton • 1897: L'Auberge du Tohu-Bohu, vaudeville-opérette • 1899: Les Sœurs Gaudichard, opéra comique • 1899: Les Saltimbanques, opérette, with Louis Ganne • 1899: Les Sœurs Gaudichard, opéra comique, with Edmond Audran • 1899: Le Curé Vincent, operetta • 1902: Madame Sherry, operetta, with Hugo Felix • 1902: Le Jockey malgré lui, opéra-bouffe, with Paul Gavault • 1902: L'Étude Tocasson, vaudeville, with Albin Valabrègue • 1903: Le Voyage des Berluron, vaudeville, with Ernest Grenet-Dancourt and Henri Kéroul • 1904: Les Hirondelles, operetta, with Henri Hirschmann • 1905: Les Filles Jackson et cie, operetta, with Justin Clérice • 1905: Une affaire scandaleuse, vaudeville, with Paul Gavault • 1910: La D’moiselle du Tabarin, operetta, with André Alexandre • 1911: Helda, operetta, with Auguste M. Fechner, Tom de Godement and Michel Farlane • 1911: La Marquise de Chicago, operetta • 1912: Trois amoureuses, operetta • 1913: La Petite Manon, opéra comique, with André Heuzé and Henri Hirschmann • 1913: Éva, comédie, with Alfred Maria Willner, with Robert Bodanzky • 1913: Le Roi des montagnes, opéra comique • 1915: La Cocarde de Mimi-Pinson, operetta, with Henri Goublier • 1916: La Demoiselle du printemps, operetta, with Henri Goublier fils, Francis Gally and Georges Léglise
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- 1.Raphaël Viau: Vingt ans d'antisémitisme 1889–1909 (Paris: Fasquelle, 1910), .
- 2.Entry on Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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