Frédéric-Michel Toulmouche (4 August 1850 – 23 February 1909)[1][2] was a French composer, who specialised in light theatrical music for small theatres.
[4] In the latter part of his career Toulmouche composed ballet scores for French music-halls, and was the chef de chant (vocal coach), for the Opéra-Comique, Paris.
His Le moûtier de Saint-Guignolet (Brussels, 1885, revised 1888) was performed in an English adaptation as The Wedding Eve as the opening production of the Trafalgar Square Theatre, London, in 1892.
The Musical Times commented that it was prudent of the management to commission Ernest Ford and "Yvolde" (Alfred Moul) to strengthen Toulmouche's score.
[10][11][12] Actually Eddy Toulmouche (aka Edy Toulmouche) is probably the artist name of his step-son, Frédéric Louis de Jonghe (1886?–23 Jan 1923),[13][14] son of his wife, Marie Louise Dureau, and her first husband, the Belgian painter Gustave de Jonghe (1828–1893).