Jean-Maurice Bourges (Bordeaux, 2 December 1812 - Paris, 15 March 1881), distinguished musical critic, translator and composer who came early to Paris to study composition under Auguste Barbereau. He became joint-editor for Revue et gazette musicale de Paris from 1839, which acquired an excellent reputation in great measure owing to him.
He made a translation of the words of St. Matthew PassionbyJohann Sebastian Bach in 1843,[1] the oratorio PaulusbyMendelssohn in 1844 and Brandus' edition of Elijah (1851),[1] and several librettos of operas by Carl Maria von Weber until writing his own comic opera La Sultana in 1846, successfully produced at the Opéra Comique.[2] He died in 1881, after an illness of many years.
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