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- Birth nameCharles Louis Ambroise Thomas
- Ambroise Thomas was born on August 5, 1811 in Metz, France. He is known for Hitting a New High (1937), Supai Zoruge (2003) and Hi Diddle Diddle (1943). He died on February 12, 1896 in Paris, France.
- On the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 Thomas, though aged nearly sixty, volunteered to serve in the Garde Nationale.
- Thomas died in his flat in the Conservatoire in 1896, aged 84, of congestion of the lungs. He was survived by his widow, Elvire, née Remaury (1827-1910), whom he married in 1878.
- Thomas' operas were generally neglected during most of the 20th century, but in more recent decades they have experienced something of a revival both in Europe and the US.
- By the age of ten he was already an experienced pianist and violinist. When he was twelve his father died, and Ambroise's elder brother Charles moved to Paris, where he played the cello in the Opéra orchestra. In 1828, aged 17, Ambroise joined him in Paris, where he was admitted as a student by the Conservatoire de Paris.
- He was a French composer and teacher, best known for his operas Mignon (1866) and Hamlet (1868).
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