Jean Schneitzhoeffer
Ballet composer for Paris Opera
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| Intro | Ballet composer for Paris Opera | |
| A.K.A. | Jean Madeleine Marie Schneitzhoeffer | |
| A.K.A. | Jean Madeleine Marie Schneitzhoeffer | |
| Places | France | |
| was | Musician Dancer Composer Choreographer Pianist | |
| Work field | Dancing Music | |
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| Birth | 13 October 1785, Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Occitania, France | |
| Death | 4 October 1852Paris, Île-de-France, France (aged 67 years) | |
| Star sign | Libra |
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Biography
Jean Madeleine Marie Schneitzhöeffer (13 October 1785, Toulouse – 14 October 1852, Paris) was a French composer.
Life
A student of Charles Simon Catel at the Conservatoire de Paris, he won second prize for piano in 1803 and then joined the Opéra as a timpanist in 1815, where (7 years later) he was made chef de chant. Made a professor of choral singing at the Conservatoire, he was granted the Légion d'honneur in 1840.
Works
He composed several partitions de ballet for the Opéra de Paris, including :
- Mars et Vénus
- Le Sicilien
- Proserpine (1818)
- Le Séducteur au village (1818)
- Zémire et Azor (1824)
- Les Filets de Vulcain (1826)
- La Sylphide, for Marie Taglioni (1832)
- La Tempête (1834)