Jean Schneitzhoeffer
Jean Madeleine Marie Schneitzhöeffer (13 October 1785 – 14 October 1852) was a French composer.
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Jean Schneitzhoeffer
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- Born
- 1785 · Toulouse.
- Died
- 1852 · Paris.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- composer · choreographer · pianist · conductor
- Fields
- classical music · opera · music
- Education
- Conservatoire de Paris
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Languages
- French
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Jean Madeleine Marie Schneitzhöeffer (13 October 1785 – 14 October 1852) was a French composer.
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Born in Toulouse, Schneitzhöeffer was 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 (seven years later) he was made chef de chant. Made a professor of choral singing at the Conservatoire, he was granted the Legion of Honour in 1840. He died in Paris.
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He composed several ballet scores 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)
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1852
Jean Schneitzhoeffer died at Paris.
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