Jeanne-Hippolyte Devismes (January 4, 1770,

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Archives department of Seine-Maritime, État civil, décès de 1836.) (née Jeanne-Hippolyte Moyroud) was a French composer. She studied the piano with Daniel Steibelt and married the director of the

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(the Paris Opéra), Anne-Pierre-Jacques Devismes du Valgay. Her only known works are a song, "La Dame Jacinthe", and an opera, ''Praxitėle'', which was first staged at the Paris Opéra on 24 July 1800. The work was a success and ran for 16 performances. The score has not survived complete.

Sources

*Jacqueline Letzer and Robert Adelson ''Women Writing Opera: Creativity and Controversy in the Age of the French Revolution'' (Columbia University Press) pp. 36–37

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