Léopold-Bastien Desormery
Léopold-Bastien Desormery (* around 1740 in Bayon, south of Nancy , † 1810 in Paris ) was a French classical composer and singer.
Life
Léopold Desormery received his musical training in the vicinity of the archbishopric cathedral of Nancy , where in 1756 the first mass of the 17 year old was performed. From 1762 he worked in Lyon , where a year later his Pastorale La bergère des Alpes was given without great success. In 1765 he settled in Paris, where he performed some of his motets at the Concert spirituel . Together with the director of the institution Joseph Legros , he created the heroic ballet Hylas et Eglé in 1774 . His opera Euthyme et Lyris was given at the Académie royale de Musique in 1776 and performed 22 times. Myrtil et Lycoris was first performed in 1777 and repeated 63 times, an unprecedented success for an opera.
Two more operas by Desormery were not allowed to be performed, discouraged by these obstacles, he devoted himself to teaching. At the age of 68 he composed his last opera, Les Montagnards , which was also never performed. Desormery withdrew to the area around Beauvais . He died at the age of more than seventy.
Works (selection)
- Cantata, Les horreurs de la guerre for tenor and orchestra (Lyon, 1762)
- Cantata, La Gloire du Seigneur (1768)
- Motet, Deus noster (1770)
Stage works
- La bergère des Alpes , Pastorale, 1763
- Hylas et Eglé , Ballet-héroïque: 1 act, 1774
- La fête du village , Opera comique: 2 acts, 1775
- Euthyme et Lyris , Ballet-héroïque: 1 act, 1776
- Myrtil et Lycoris , Pastorale, 1777
- Le mendiant , Comédie: 3 acts, 1808
- Les montagnards
Individual evidence
- ^ Fétis: Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie génèrale de la musique (1862)
- ↑ MGG , 2nd edition, Vol. 5, pp. 881-882
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Desormery, Léopold-Bastien |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer and classical singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1740 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bayon south of Nancy |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1810 |
| Place of death | Paris |