HALEVY, JACQUES FRANCOIS FROMENTAL ELIE (1799-. 1862)

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HALEVY, JACQUES FRANCOIS FROMENTAL ELIE (1799-. 1862) , French composer, was born on the 27th of May 1799, at Paris, of a Jewish family. He studied at the Paris Conservatoireunder Berton and

Cherubini

CHERUBINI, MARIA LUIGI CARLO ZENOBIO SALVATORE (1760-1842)

, and in 1819 gained the grand prix de Rome with his cantata Herminie. In accordance with the conditions of his scholarship he started for Rome, where he devoted himself to the study of Italian music, and wrote an opera and various

minor

works. In 1827 his opera L' Artisan was performed at the Theatre Feydeau in Paris, apparently without much success. Other works of

minor

importance, and now forgotten, followed, amongst which Manon Lescaut, a ballet, produced in 1830, deserves mention. In 1834 the Opera-Comique produced Ludovic, the score of which had been begun by Herold and had been completed by Halevy. In 1835 Halevy composed the tragic opera La Juive and the comic opera L'Eclair, and on these works his fame is mainly founded. The famous air of Eleazar and the anathema of the cardinal in La Juive soon became popular all over France. L'Eclair is a curiosity of musical literature. It is written for two tenors and two soprani, without a chorus, and displays the composer's mastery over the most refined effects of instrumentation and vocalization in a favourable light. After these two works he wrote numerous operas of various genres, amongst which only La Reine de Chypre, a spectacular piece analyzed by

Wagner

in one of his Paris letters (1841), and La Tempesta, in three acts, written for Her Majesty's theatre, London (1850), need be mentioned. In addition to his productive

work

WORK

Halevy also rendered valuable services as a teacher. He was professor at the Conservatoire from 1827 till his deathsome of the most successful amongst the younger composers in France, such as Gounod,

Victor

VICTOR
VICTOR, GAIUS
JULIUS
- JULIUS
(4th cent. A.D.)
VICTOR, SEXTUS AURELIUS

Masse and Georges Bizet, the author of Carmen, being amongst his pupils. He was maestro al cembalo at the Theatre Italien from 1827 to 1829; then director of singing at the Opera

House

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
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it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

in Paris until 1845, and in 1836 he succeeded Reicha at the Institut de France. Halevy also tried his hand at literature. In 1857 he became permanent secretary to the Academie des

Beaux

BEAUX, CECILIA (1863– )

Arts, and there exists an agreeable volume of Souvenirs et portraits from his pen. He died at Nice, on the 17th of

March

1862.

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