Edmond Roche


Edmond Louis Joseph Arthur Roche 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, 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.