Victor Hugo
Life
Born: 26 February 1802
Died: 22 May 1885
Biography
Victor-Marie Hugo was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France. In France, Hugo's literary reputation rests primarily on his poetic and dramatic output and only secondarily on his novels. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem, and Hugo is sometimes identified as the greatest French poet. Outside France, his best-known works are the novels Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris (sometimes translated into English as The Hunchback of Notre Dame). He is buried in the Panthéon.
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Musical settings of literary works
- La Captive, orientale (Hector Berlioz)
- Le crucifix (Charles Gounod)
- Le Crucifix (Franz Liszt)
- Les Djinns, Op. 12 (Gabriel Fauré)
- Eglogue (Léo Delibes)
- Lied aus Ruy Blas MWV J 6 (Felix Mendelssohn)
- Passez, Passez Toujours (César Franck)
- Quand tu dors (Halfdan Kjerulf)
- Roses et papillons (César Franck)
- Si mes vers avaient des ailes (Reynaldo Hahn)
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