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HEROLD, LOUIS JOSEPH FERDINAND (1791-1833) , French musician, the son of Francois Joseph Herold, an accomplished pianist, was born in Paris, on the 28th of January 1791. It was not till after his father's death that Herold in 1806 entered the Paris conservatoire, where he studied under Catal and Maul.In 1812 he gained the grand prix de Rome with the cantata La Duchesse de la Valliere, and started for Italy
cantata and several pieces of chamber music. During his stay in Italy
Charles
France
French opera, Les Rosieres (1817), which was received very favourably. Herold produced numerous dramatic works for the next fifteen years in rapid succession. Only the names of some of the more important need here be mentioned :La Clochette (1817), L'Auteur mort et vivant (182o), Marie
pianoforte music, in spite of his time being much occupied by his duties as accompanist at the Italian opera in Paris. In 1831 he produced the romantic opera Zampa, and in the following year Le Pre aux clercs (first performance December 15, 1832), in which French esprit and French chivalry find their most perfect embodiment. These two operas secured immortality for the name of the composer, who died on the 18th of January 1833, of the lung disease from which he had suffered for many years, and the effects of which he had accelerated by incessant work
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