Nicolas-Alexandre Dezède (c.1740 in
Lyon
Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...
– 11 September 1798, in Paris) was an 18th-century French composer born from unknown parents.
Dezède presented a great many number of
opéras comiques, of which several were popular, at the
Théâtre italien de Paris. He served the Duke des Deux-Ponts from 1749 to 1790. A freemason, he was initiated at the lodge
Les Neuf Sœurs
La Loge des Neuf Sœurs (; The Nine Sisters), established in Paris in 1776, was a prominent French Masonic Lodge of the Grand Orient de France that was influential in organising French support for the American Revolution. A "Société des Neuf Sœ ...
in Paris.
[Le cosmopolitisme musical à Paris à la fin du XVIIIe siècle par Pierre-François Pinaud chroniques d'histoire maçonnique n°.63] Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. Despite his short life, his ra ...
and
Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classical ...
both wrote variations on themes by Dezède.
His daughter
Florine Dezède composed the opera ''
Lucette et Lucas.''
Main operas
*1772: ''Julie'' (28 September) ;
*1777: ''Les Trois Fermiers'' ;
*1783: ''Blaise et Babet'' ;
*1784: ''Le Véritable Figaro'' ;
*1785: ''Alexis et Justine''.
References
Bibliography
Alessandro Di Profio, ''Dezède (Familie)'', MGG (''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart''), new edition : Kassel,
Bärenreiter
Bärenreiter (Bärenreiter-Verlag) is a German classical music publishing house based in Kassel. The firm was founded by Karl Vötterle (1903–1975) in Augsburg in 1923, and moved to Kassel in 1927, where it still has its headquarters; it also ...
, 1997, éd.
Ludwig Finscher
Ludwig Finscher (14 March 193030 June 2020) was a German musicologist. He was a professor of music history at the University of Heidelberg from 1981 to 1995 and editor of the encyclopedia ''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart''. He is respecte ...
, vol. 5, coll. 961–963
External links
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His opéras-comiques and their presentationso
CÉSAR
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French opera composers
French male opera composers
1740s births
Musicians from Lyon
1792 deaths
French Freemasons