Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray
1840–1910 (age 70)
Biography
Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray, born in 1840, was a composer and scholar whose curiosity about folk traditions led him to collect and celebrate melodies from across France and beyond, infusing his choral works with rhythmic vitality that influenced students at the Conservatoire de Paris.
He is remembered at the Miséricorde cemetery, where admirers of his music still note how he married scholarship to artistry in an era of rapid change.