Jean Madeleine Marie Schneitzhöeffer (13 October 1785 – 14 October 1852) was a French composer.

Life

Born in

Toulouse Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Par ...

, Schneitzhöeffer was a student of

Charles Simon Catel Charles-Simon Catel (10 June 1773 – 29 November 1830) was a French composer and educator born at L'Aigle, Orne. Biography Catel studied at the Royal School of Singing in Paris. He was the chief assistant to François-Joseph Gossec at the or ...

at the

Conservatoire de Paris The Conservatoire de Paris (), also known as the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue ...

. He won second prize for piano in 1803 and then joined the

Opéra This is a glossary list of opera genres, giving alternative names. "Opera" is an Italian word (short for "opera in musica"); it was not at first ''commonly'' used in Italy (or in other countries) to refer to the genre of particular works. Most c ...

as a

timpani Timpani (; ) or kettledrums (also informally called timps) are musical instruments in the percussion family. A type of drum categorised as a hemispherical drum, they consist of a membrane called a head stretched over a large bowl traditionall ...

st in 1815, where (seven years later) he was made ''chef de chant''. Made a professor of choral singing at the Conservatoire, he was granted the

Legion of Honour The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon, ...

in 1840. He died in

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Works

He composed several ballet scores for the Opéra de Paris, including : * ''Mars et Vénus'' * ''Le Sicilien'' * ''Proserpine'' (1818) * ''Le Séducteur au village'' (1818) * ''Zémire et Azor'' (1824) * ''Les Filets de Vulcain'' (1826) * ''

La Sylphide ''La Sylphide'' ( en, The Sylph; da, Sylfiden) is a romantic ballet in two acts. There were two versions of the ballet; the original choreographed by Filippo Taglioni in 1832, and a second version choreographed by August Bournonville in 1836. Bo ...

'', for

Marie Taglioni Marie Taglioni, Comtesse de Voisins (23 April 1804 – 22 April 1884) was a Swedish-born ballet dancer of the Romantic ballet era partially of Italian descent, a central figure in the history of European dance. She spent most of her life in th ...

(1832) * ''La Tempête'' (1834) Musicians from Toulouse 1785 births 1852 deaths 19th-century classical composers French ballet composers French classical composers French male classical composers Recipients of the Legion of Honour 19th-century French male musicians {{France-composer-stub