Léon Prévost

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Léon Prévost (born December 3, 1831 in Le Havre , † October 11, 1877 in New Orleans ) was an American composer.

The son of the composer Eugène Prévost and the singer Eléonore Colon , who came to New Orleans with his parents as a child, worked there early as a timpanist in the theater's orchestra, after a two-year study visit to Paris as first violinist and second conductor of the orchestra of the city Opera.

In 1857 his comic opera Diane de Liron, based on a libretto by Gustave Lemoine and Adrien Decourcelle, premiered at the Théâtre de New Orleans . In November of that year he conducted a requiem composed by himself and his father in the Saint-Louis Cathedral on the first anniversary of the death of his brother Eugène, who had died the previous year at the age of sixteen.

In 1858 he married Marie Mathilde Mandevilla Wiltz , with whom he had three daughters. She outlived her husband by 28 years and died in New Orleans in 1905.