Pessard was born and died in Paris. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he won 1st prize in Harmony. In 1866 he won the Grand Prix de Rome with his cantataDalila which was performed at the Paris Opera on 21 February 1867. From 1878 to 1880 he was inspector of singing at Paris Schools, in 1881 he became professor of Harmony at the Paris Conservatory.
La Cruche cassée (opéra comicque in 1 act, libretto by Hyppolite Lucas and Emile Abraham, premiered on 21 February 1870 at the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique in Paris)
Don Quichotte (opera, premiered on 13 February 1874 at the Salle Érard in Paris)
Le Char (opera, premiered on 18 January 1878 at the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique in Paris)
Le Capitaine Fracasse (opera, premiered on 2 July 1878 at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris)
Tabarin (opera, premiered on 12 January 1885 at the Théâtre de l'Opéra in Paris)
Tartarin sur les Alpes (comic opera, premiered on 17 November 1888 at the Théâtre de la Gaîté in Paris)
Les Folies amoureuses (comic opera, premiered on 15 April 1891 at the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique in Paris); Work in three acts from Regnard, by André Lénéka and Emmanuel Matrat, with Lise Landouzy (1861-1943) (Agathe, soprano), Zoé Molé-Truffier (1855-1923) (Lisette, soprano), Ernest Carbonne (Eraste, ténor), Gabriel Soulacroix (Crispin, baryton), Lucien Fugère (Albert, basse), Edmond Clément (Clitandre, ténor) and Mr. Thierry (Ragotin, basse); Jules Danbé, conductor, and Henri Carré (1848-1925), choir director.
Une Nuit de Noël (opera, premiered in 1893 at the Ambigu in Paris)
Mam'zelle Carabin (comic opera, premiered on 3 November 1893 at the Bouffes-Parisiens, Salle Choiseul, in Paris)
Le Muet (opera in 1 act, 1894)
La Dame de trèfle (comic opera, premiered on 13 May 1898 at the Bouffes-Parisiens, Salle Choiseul, in Paris)
L'Armée des vierges (comic opera in 3 acts, premiered on 15 October 1902 at the Bouffes-Parisiens, Salle Choiseul, in Paris)
L'Epave (comic opera in 1 act, premiered on 17 February 1903 at the Bouffes-Parisiens, Salle Choiseul, in Paris)
Recordings
Émile Pessard - Vingt-cinq pièces pour le piano. Olivier Godin. XXI-21 Productions. 2011
Dans la Forêt, Op. 130 on album Chant d'Automne Forgotten Treasures Vol. 6 Ulrich Hubner (horn) Kolner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens
One song on collection: L'adieu de matin, from Cinq Mélodies; rec. Richard Crooks (tenor) on RCA Victor, 1940; on collection Richard Crooks in Songs and Ballads (Nimbus Records)
Petite Messe brève, op.62, for one or two voces and organ: Maîtrise d'Enfants Notre-Dame de Brive; soloists: Virginie Verrez, Alice Imbert; choir director: Christophe Loiseleur des Longchamps. Recorded in Gramat (Lot), with Junck organ. June 2004. Studio création n°200402.
↑ Stephen Zank Irony and Sound: The Music of Maurice Ravel 2009 Page 236 "Through Schmitt and Delius, then, Ravel entered the differently Bohemian salons of Gauguin and the Franco-Norwegian composer William Molard, a government clerk and composition student of Émile Pessard,.."
↑ Nancy Toff - Monarch of the Flute: The Life of Georges Barrère Page 30 2005 " the young violist Albert Seitz, which received its premiere. Seitz was an auditor in Émile Pessard's harmony class ..."
↑ Michael D. Largey Vodou Nation: Haitian Art Music And Cultural Nationalism 2006 "Justin Elie (1883–1931) enjoyed the most prominent international reputation of all the Haitian composers; ... Wilfred Bériot for piano, Émile Pessard for harmony, and Paul Vital for composition (Dalencour 1983; Herissé n.d.)."
↑ Peter Lamothe Theater Music in France, 1864-1914 2008 Page 286, "Revived at the Odéon, 11 April 1901 with musical direction by Émile Pessard."
↑ Annegret Fauser, Mark Everist Music, Theater, and Cultural Transfer: Paris, 1830-1914 2009 Page 136 "(Its final round required the contestants to compose a lyric scene, an unstaged mini-opera referred to as a cantata.) ... Théodore Dubois (1861), Charles Ferdinand Lenepveu (1865), Émile Pessard (1866), and Henri Maréchal ...
The Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, p.332, 1940, Blue Ribbon Books, Inc. (Original (c) 1903)
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