Henri Sauguet

Henri Sauguet was a French composer from Bordeaux who moved to Paris in the 1920s and established a career writing for theatre, ballet, opera and film. His music is characterised by clear, melodic lines, a restrained neoclassical sensibility and economical orchestration, and across his career he composed operas, ballets, choral works and film scores that placed him within mid-20th-century French musical life.