Edouard Boilly

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Edouard Boilly (born November 14, 1799 in Paris , † 1854 ) was a French composer .

Life

Boilly came from a family of painters: his grandfather Arnould Boilly was a wood sculptor, his father was the painter Louis-Léopold Boilly . His brothers were the painter Julien Boilly and the graphic artist Alphonse Boilly , his nephew, the son of his half-brother Simon, Eugène Boilly , was known as a portrait and history painter .

Boilly also tried his hand at painting and printing in his youth, but studied at the Conservatoire de Paris after attending the College of Versailles . His teachers were François-Joseph Fétis (counterpoint) and François-Adrien Boieldieu (composition). In 1823 he won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata Pyrame et Thisbé .

After a traditional stay in the Villa Medici in Rome and a trip to Germany, he settled in Paris in 1826. Here he worked as a piano teacher, u. a. at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand , and as a tutor in Fétis' class at the Conservatoire de Paris.

His comic opera Le bal du sous-préfet was successfully performed at the Opéra-Comique in 1844 . His other compositions have been lost.

Web links

  • CV ( Prix ​​de Rome 1820–1829)