Eugène d'Harcourt

Anne Marie Eugène d'Harcourt, Comte d'Harcourt (May 20, 1859 – March 7, 1918), was a French conductor and composer.

[1][2] He was born on May 20, 1859, in Paris, France, to Bruno Jean Marie d'Harcourt and Juliette d'Andigne de la Chasse.

[3] He completed his mandatory military service and on the advice of Charles Lamoureux went to Berlin, Germany, where he became a pupil of Woldemar Bargiel.

He returned to Paris and founded the "Concerts Eclectiques Populaires" in 1892.

In 1900 he organized a society to perform oratorios in the Église Saint-Eustache, Paris, and he directed "The Messiah" by Handel, Berlioz's Requiem, St Matthew Passion by Bach and for the first time anywhere, Massenet's oratorio La Terre Promise.