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.[1] Mozart and Beethoven both wrote variations on themes by Dezède.
His daughter Florine Dezède composed the opera Lucette et Lucas.
Main operas
edit- 1772: Julie (28 September) ;
- 1777: Les Trois Fermiers ;
- 1783: Blaise et Babet ;
- 1784: Le Véritable Figaro ;
- 1785: Alexis et Justine.
References
edit- ^ Le cosmopolitisme musical à Paris à la fin du XVIIIe siècle par Pierre-François Pinaud chroniques d'histoire maçonnique n°.63
Bibliography
editAlessandro Di Profio, Dezède (Familie), MGG (Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart), new edition : Kassel, Bärenreiter, 1997, éd. Ludwig Finscher, vol. 5, coll. 961–963
