Nicolas-Alexandre Dezède (c.1740 in Lyon – 11 September 1798, in Paris) was an 18th-century French composer born from unknown parents.
Dezède presented a great many number of opéras comiques, of which several were popular, at the Théâtre italien de Paris. He served the Duke des Deux-Ponts from 1749 to 1790. A freemason, he was initiated at the lodge Les Neuf Sœurs in Paris. Mozart and Beethoven both wrote variations on themes by Dezède.
His daughter Florine Dezède composed the opera Lucette et Lucas.
Main operas
- 1772: Julie (28 September) ;
- 1777: Les Trois Fermiers ;
- 1783: Blaise et Babet ;
- 1784: Le Véritable Figaro ;
- 1785: Alexis et Justine.
References
- Le cosmopolitisme musical à Paris à la fin du XVIIIe siècle par Pierre-François Pinaud chroniques d'histoire maçonnique n°.63
Bibliography
Alessandro Di Profio, Dezède (Familie), MGG (Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart), new edition : Kassel, Bärenreiter, 1997, éd. Ludwig Finscher, vol. 5, coll. 961–963
External links
- Free scores by Nicolas Dezède at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- His opéras-comiques and their presentations on CÉSAR
