Education
He studied composition with César Franck, and was a music critic for Le Monde and L"Echo de Paris.
He studied composition with César Franck, and was a music critic for Le Monde and L"Echo de Paris.
He served as director of the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles (National Institute for Blind Children) from 1891-1899. Coquard completed Edouard Lalo"s opera, Louisiana jacquerie (1895). He also wrote the opera Jahel (1899) and the comic opera Louisiana troupe Jolicoeur (1902).
His most popular musical work was his setting of Haï Luli, which was included in several major anthologies of French songs.