Personne : Leopold-Bastien Desorméry

Titre Date Rôle
La Fête de village 1775-06-28 compositeur
Myrtil et Lycoris 1777-11-14 compositeur
Fragments : l’acte d’Euthyme et Lyris (et Aruëris ou les Isies) 1776-10-01 compositeur
La Bergère des Alpes 01-1763 compositeur
Amaryllis 1782 compositeur

  • Sujet Grove Music Online
    Objet [extrait de:] Roger COTTE : 'Desormery, Léopold-Bastien', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 18 March 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
    "Desormery [Désormerie], Léopold-Bastien (b Bayon, Lorraine, c1740; d nr Beauvais, c1810). French composer, singer and actor. According to Fétis he studied music at the archiepiscopal school of Nancy. By 1762 he was a singer and composer in Lyons, where his pastoral La bergère des Alpes was performed in the following year. By 1764 he was a pensionnaire of the Lyons opera. He was on the staff of a small music school in Lyons (1765) and was also a musician at the cathedral. He sang comic parts in Mâcon and by 1770 had become a comédien in Strasbourg. That year he was co-winner of the Parisian Concert Spirituel annual prize for ‘musique latine’. He then moved to Paris and was an actor at the Théâtre Italien from about 1774 to 1778. During these years he also sang in and wrote sacred works for the Concert Spirituel, and in quick succession composed several stage works, including Euthyme et Lyris (1776, 22 performances) and the highly successful Myrtil et Lycoris (1777, 63 performances) for the Opéra. Unable to repeat his former successes he abandoned his artistic career and devoted himself to teaching, retiring to the vicinity of Beauvais. Shortly before his death he attempted another theatrical work, but it was not performed.
    Desormery’s son Jean-Baptiste(-Léopold-Bastien) Desormery (b Nancy, 1772; d after 1813) was a successful pianist (a student of Hüllmandel) and also published virtuoso and didactic works for the piano […]."
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