Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin 1821 - 1910

[kolaboy]

Came across him in a Felicien David biography (Dorothy Veinus Hagan), where his ode symphony "La Poems de la Mer" was mentioned in conjunction with David's "Christopher Columbus" - by which he was apparently influenced. Not a lot to be found about him, web-wise... apart from a very modest wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Weckerlin

[UnsungMasterpieces]

I've never heard of this composer, so I started digging a little on Spotify.
There is a recording available of his operetta "La Laitiere de Trianon", but it's an arrangement for piano and singers.
IMSLP lists it as a piece for vocal soloists & orchestra though, so maybe it's a different arrangement that got released.
Arkivmusic describes the piece as an "opérette de salon".

[nielk]

Weckerlin (or Wekerlin) was mainly known as the librarian of the Paris Conservatory, less as a composer, but still he was quite prolific. His Wikipedia page is really terrible, not well written and rather superficial. I've just done a few formal edits, but I will expand it in the next few days. Check back next week or so.

[kolaboy]

Nice, appreciated.

[eschiss1]

His name shows up in the Bibliographie nationale (BdlF) often enough during his lifetime when I was searching for other things  to suggest that he was fairly prolifically published.