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Ambroise Thomas , 1811-96, French operatic composer, studied at the Paris Conservatory, receiving the Prix de Rome in 1832. He later taught composition there and became its director in 1871. Thomas wrote cantatas, a number of ballets, and 20 operas, of which Le Caïd (1849, a satire on Italian opera), Mignon (1866), and Hamlet (1868) were the most successful.

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Mignon. Opera in 3 acts by Ambroise Thomas to lib. by Barbier and Carré based on Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (1795–6). Prod. Paris 1866, London 1870, New Orleans 1871, NY 1883.

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