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Ferdinand Gasse (* 1780 in Naples , † around 1840) was a French violinist and composer .

Gasse, who was probably related to the architect Louis-Silvestre Gasse, who was born in Naples eight years later , attended Pierre Rode's violin class at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1798 . He also had lessons from Rodolphe Kreutzer , the dedicatee of Beethoven's famous Kreutzer sonata . He also studied harmony with Charles-Simon Catel and composition with François-Joseph Gossec .

From 1801 Gasse was a violinist at the Paris Opera . In 1805 he received the deuxième Premier Grand Prix de Rome for his cantata Cupidon pleurant Psyché (based on a text by Antoine-Vincent Arnault ) . During his stay in Rome ao. a. a two-choir Te Deum and a Christe eleison , works that met the approval of Étienne-Nicolas Méhul .

From 1810 to 1812 Gasse stayed in Naples before he came to Paris, where he resumed his work as a violinist at the Grand Opéra after the interruption caused by his stay in Italy. In the year of his arrival, his buffalo opera La finta Zingara was premiered here. In 1834 Gasse retired with a pension; the exact date of his death is not known. In addition to several other operas, Gasse mainly composed works for the violin.

It is believed that Gasse was the father of Edme-Hippolyte Gasse. The pupil of François-Joseph Fétis and Henri Montan Berton taught Solfège at the Conservatoire de Paris and died early on January 11, 1831.

Operas

• La finta Zingara UA 1812
• Le voyage incognito UA 1819
• L'Idiote , WP 1820
• Une Nuit de Gustav Wasa , UA 1825
• L'Ange gardien ou Soeur Marie , UA 1831

Fonts

• Méthode de violon , 1803
• Cours de musique , 1830