“The Doors”, he was the front man, Morrison advanced the repertoire of rock music to multi-layered concept pieces and shapes of rock theater. He wrote more than one hundred songs with a wide range of musical styles: blues, rock songs, psychedelic rock, hard rock, ballads, sea shanties and a-cappella singing. Musically, he also quoted classical Works by Kurt Weill and Johann Sebastian Bach. Although Jim Morrison mainly is known for his songs, his artistic oeuvre is not limited to music. He left more than 1,600 manuscript pages, including poems, stories, essays, short stories, song lyrics, scenic lyrics and screenplay drafts.
 

In the 1960’s and 70’s, more than 30 of his own songs were placed in the charts. Numerous tours have taken him throughout Europe, Canada and South America. He sang his songs in nine different languages. Throughout his more than 50-year stage career, Adamo is not only known as a pop star, but also wrote numerous serious songs which he often performed together with other famous singers.
 

After his return, he was church music director, choir director and organist in Paris and composed initially some sacred works, but from 1848 he turned away to strengthen the opera composition. In 1859, his most famous opera “Faust” brought him the breakthrough as a respected composer. The opera, which is often performed in Germany under the title “Marguerite” is still regarded as his masterpiece. Although most of his twelve operas are no longer on the board today, Charles Gounod is considered one of the most respected representative of the typical French Opéra lyrique. Due to the Franco-German War 1870/71 Gounod lived in London from 1870 to 1874, where he founded the Gounod’s Choir, which later became the Royal Choral Society. In his age, the deeply religious Gounod again turned to church music and left numerous oratorios and choral works. His “Ave Maria” based on the “Well-Tempered Clavier” by Johann Sebastian Bach is known worldwide as one of the most popular pieces of classical music.