Jeanne-Hippolyte Devismes

French composer
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroFrench composer
PlacesFrance
isMusician Composer
Work fieldMusic
Gender
Female
Birth1 January 1765
The details

Biography

Jeanne-Hippolyte Devismes (1765 – 1834?) (née Jeanne-Hippolyte Moyroud) was a French composer. She studied the piano with Daniel Steibelt and married the director of the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opéra), Anne-Pierre-Jacques Devismes du Valgay. Her only known works are a song, "La Dame Jacinthe", and an opera, Praxitėle, which was first staged at the Paris Opéra on 24 July 1800. The work was a success and ran for 16 performances. The score has not survived complete.

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