Edmond Roche

Edmond Louis Joseph Arthur Roche (20 February 1828 in Calais – 24 December 1861 in Paris) was a 19th-century French poet, playwright, librettist and violinist.

A student of Habeneck at the Paris conservatory where he learned to play the violin (1842), he became first violinist of the orchestra of the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin before leaving this position to become a customs employee.

Works A friend of Richard Wagner, he gave the first translation in French of Tannhäuser.

His poésies were published in 1863 by Michel Lévy posthumously at the expense of his friends, with a preface by Victorien Sardou with engravings by Camille Corot and others.

1853: Mozart, étude poétique 1856: Les Algues, études marines 1859: Stradivarius 1859: Les Récréations enfantines 1860: L'Italie de nos jours 1861: Les Virtuoses contemporains 1863: La dernière fourberie de Scapin (À propos in one act in verse), (posthumous)