Editing Benjamin Godard (section)

{{short description|French violinist and composer}}
[[File:Benjamin Godard.jpg|thumb|upright|Benjamin Godard, c. 1880, Bibliothèque nationale de France]]
'''Benjamin Louis Paul Godard''' (18 August 1849{{spaced ndash}}10 January 1895) was a French [[violin]]ist and [[Romanticism|Romantic-era]] composer of Jewish extraction,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.duttonvocalion.co.uk/search.asp?pg%3D1%26cat%3Dts1%26stext%3DGodard%26stype%3Dexact |title=Search |access-date=2015-02-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150217142139/http://www.duttonvocalion.co.uk/search.asp?pg=1&cat=ts1&stext=Godard&stype=exact |archive-date=2015-02-17 }}</ref> best known for his opera ''[[Jocelyn (opera)|Jocelyn]]''. Godard composed eight operas, five symphonies, two piano and two violin concertos, string quartets, sonatas for violin and piano, piano pieces and etudes, and more than a hundred songs. He died at the age of 45 in [[Cannes]] ([[Alpes-Maritimes]]) of [[tuberculosis]] and was buried in the family tomb in [[Taverny]] in the French department of [[Val-d'Oise]].