Georges Douay

A trendy composer in the years 1860–1870, he was responsible for numerous songs and music of operettas. At his death, he bequeathed the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal a rich collection of over 50,000 artifacts on theater, which included printed materials, 700 engravings and 1500 manuscripts. This collection was the origin of the theatrical direction of the establishment.^[1]

He wrote more than 400 pieces on texts by Francis Tourte, William Busnach or Alexandre Flan, among others.^[2]

• John Denison Champlin, William Foster Apthorp, Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians: Abaco-Dyne, 1893, p. 449
• Frantz Funck-Brentano, Paul Deslandres, La Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, 1930, p. 26
• Albert Ernest Wier, The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians, T.1, 1938, p. 479