Charles Cros

Poet

Charles Cros

1842 - 1888

Charles Cros was a French poet and inventor. He is perhaps best known for being the first person to conceive a method for reproducing recorded sound, an invention he named the Paleophone.

Song List

This list is likely to be of songs that have been performed at Oxford International Song Festivals and Oxford Song events, and may not be comprehensive of this composer's compositions. This database is ever growing as a work in progress, with further songs regularly being added.

Chanson perpétuelle (1898) Ernest Chausson
L'archet (1883) L46 Claude Debussy
L'inconstante (2003) Isabelle Aboulker

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