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Nicolas Dezède

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Nicolas-Alexandre Dezède (Lyon, c. 1740 Paris, 11 September 1798) was an 18th-century French composers born from unknown parents.

Dezède presented a great many number of opéras comiques, of which several were popular, at the Théâtre italien de Paris. He served the Duke des Deux-Ponts from 1749 to 1790. A freemason, he was initiated at the lodge Les Neuf Sœurs in Paris[1]

Main operas

  • 1772: Julie (28 September) ;
  • 1777: Les Trois Fermiers ;
  • 1783: Blaise et Babet ;
  • 1784: Le Véritable Figaro ;
  • 1785: Alexis et Justine.

References

  1. ^ Le cosmopolitisme musical à Paris à la fin du XVIIIe siècle par Pierre-François Pinaud chroniques d'histoire maçonnique n°.63

Bibliography

Alessandro Di Profio, Dezède (Familie), MGG (Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart), nouvelle édition : Kassel, Bärenreiter, 1997, éd. Ludwig Finscher, vol. 5, coll. 961–963