Xavier Leroux
Xavier Henry Napoleón Leroux (born October 11, 1863 in Velletri , † February 2, 1919 in Paris ) was a French composer.
Life
Xavier Leroux studied at the Paris Conservatory with Jules Massenet and Théodore Dubois and won the 1st Prix de Rome in 1885 with the cantata Endymion , which allowed him to spend a year at the Villa Medici in Rome, where he befriended Claude Debussy. From 1896 he taught harmony at the Conservatory, where his students included Paul Paray , Roger Désormière , Eugène Bigot , Georges Dandelot , Albert Wolff , Henri Mulet and Louis Fourestier .
Leroux composed various orchestral and choral works. He was best known as a representative of naturalistic French opera . His masterpiece is the opera Le Chemineau , which was performed six times at the Paris Opéra-Comique between 1907 and 1945 . In 1905 Alfredo Casella dedicated his Symphony No. 1 in B minor Op. 5.
Leroux was married to the soprano Marie-Antoinette Willemsen from Brussels, who performed under the pseudonym Meyrianne Héglon (1967–1942).
Works
- Evangéline , Opera, 1895 (each world premiere)
- Vénus et Adonis , Opera, 1897
- Astarté , Opera, 1901
- La Reine Fiammette , Opera, 1903
- William Ratcliff , opera after Heinrich Heine , 1907
- Le Chemineau , Opera, 1907
- Théodora , Opera, 1907
- Le Carillonneur , 1913
- La Fille de Figaro , Opera, 1914
- Les Cadeaux de noël , Opera, 1915
- 1814 , opera, 1918
- Nausithoé , Opera, 1920
- La plus forte , Opera, 1924
- L'Ingénu , Opera, 1931
Web links
- Sheet music and audio files by Xavier Leroux in the International Music Score Library Project
- List of stage works by Xavier Leroux based on the MGG at Operone
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Leroux, Xavier |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Leroux, Xavier Henry Napoleón (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 11, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Velletri |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 2, 1919 |
| Place of death | Paris |