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BNF, catalogue
Objet
"Deshayes, Prosper-Didier - forme savante à valeur internationale.
Nationalité : France.
Naissance : 175.? -
Mort : 1815.
Compositeur, danseur et professeur. - Maître de danse à l'École royale de chant. - Employé au Trésor national après la révolution, de nouveau actif à l'Opéra après 1801.
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Grove Music Online
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Michael BARNARD, Mary HUNTER: 'Deshayes, Prosper-Didier', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 4 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Deshayes [Des Hayes, des Hayes, Deshays], Prosper-Didier
(b mid-18th century; d Paris, 1815). French composer, dancer and teacher. He first acquired fame as a dancer. He danced at least once at the Comédie-Française in 1762 and was ballet-master there by 1764; he was an adjoint at the Opéra in 1774. In 1777 he made his début as a composer at the Concert Spirituel, and during the following ten years his compositions were performed there 25 times – the fourth-largest number of presentations of works by a native composer in that period. […] He was master of dance at the Ecole Royale de Chant from its establishment in 1784 and made his début as an opera composer the following year with Le faux serment, ou La matrone de Gonesse. After the Revolution he was employed by the National Treasury and, according to Duval, joined the National Guard; he was active again at the Opéra from 1801. His greatest work is Zélia (1791), on a libretto by Dubuisson based on Gœthe’s Stella […]"
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