Louis Deffès

Louis Deffès
Louis Deffès in 1890
Born	25 July 1819 Toulouse
Died	28 May 1900(1900-05-28) (aged 80) Toulouse
Occupation	Composer
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Louis Deffès or Pierre-Louis Deffès (25 July 1819 – 28 May 1900) was a 19th-century French composer.

Selected works

Opéras comiques

• La Lanterne magique, 1 act, lyrics by Auguste Carré.
• 1855: L'Anneau d'Argent, 1 act, lyrics by Jules Barbier and Léon Battu
• 1857: La Clé des champs, 1 act, lyrics by Henry Boisseaux.
• 1858: Broskovano, 2 acts, lyrics by Eugène Scribe and Henry Boisseaux.
• 1858: Les Deux Bazile, 2 acts, libretto by Henry Boisseaux and Eugène Scribe
• 1860: Les Petits violons du roi, 3 actes, livret de Henry Boisseaux and Eugène Scribe
• 1861: Les Bourguignonnes, 1 acte, lyrics by Henri Meilhac.
• 1861: Le Café du Roi, 1 act, lyrics by Henri Meilhac.
• 1863: Le Fantôme du Rhin, 1 act, libretto by Méry and Jules Adenis
• 1863: Valse et Menuet, 1 act, lyrics by Méry.
• 1865: La Boite à surprises, 1 act, lyrics by Laurencin
• bef.1868: Les Croqueuses de Pommes, 5 acts, lyrics by Eugène Grangé and Emile Abraham.
• 1868: Petit bonhomme vit encore, 2 acts, lyrics by Émile de Najac.
• bef.1877: Le Trompette de Chamboran, 1 act, lyrics by Adolphe de Leuven and Jules Adenis.
• 1878: Les Noces de Fernande, 3 acts, lyrics by Victorien Sardou and Émile de Najac.

Operas

• Gessica (given in 1898 but composed before 1889), 4 acts, libretto by Jules Adenis after The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare ;

Orchestral music

• Un Triomphe à Rome (symphonic poem)

Chamber music

Marche funèbre for piano

Incidental music

• Passé minuit, music for the comédie en vaudeville by Lockroy and Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois (1869)

Sacred music

• Messe solennelle
• L'Ange et Tobie (Cantata on a poem by Léon Halévy)
• Cantate to Clémence Isaure
• Hosanna! (chant d'Hyménée - in French, lyrics by Adolphe Pellier – Tota Pulchra Es – in Latin, lyrics by Abbé Daix)

Bibliography

• Paul Feuga and Victor Marty: Louis Deffès, compositeur (Toulouse, Éditions Privat, 1920)

External links

• Louis Deffès on Data.bnf.fr
• Biographie de Louis Deffès sur Musica et Memoria
• Free scores by Pierre-Louis Deffès at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)