Alphonse Thys (8 March 1807 – 1 August 1879) was an 19th-century French composer.
He studied harmony at the Conservatoire de Paris with Émile Bienaimé and musical composition with Henri-Montan Berton.
In 1833, he won the first Prix de Rome with his cantata Le Contrebandier espagnol. He lived two years at the villa Medicis in Rome then settled in Paris as a composer. He wrote some popular songs such as La Belle Limonadière or La Nuit au sérail.
He wrote operas for the Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique as well as mixed choirs. When he was a teacher of music, he used Pierre Galin's method and in 1873 wrote the foreword of the book Histoire anecdotique de la méthode Galin-Paris-Chevé. His most famous pupil was Edmond de Polignac.
He was Pauline-Marie-Elisa Thys's father.
His abundant production includes:
1835: Alda, opéra en un acte, with Jean-François Bayard and Paul Duport1839: Le Roi Margot, comédie à ariettes1841: L'Avantage d'être goujon !, bêtise aquatique in four couplets, lyrics by Justin Cabassol1842: La Discrète !, lyrics by Émile Barateau1844: Oreste et Pylade, opéra comique in one act1844: Marquise et soubrette, melodies, lyrics by Victor Mabille1844: Le Nuage !, melody, lyrics by Marc Constantin1845: L'Amazone, opéra comique in one act1846: Le Distrait !, song, lyrics by Victor Mabille1848: La sournoise, opéra comique in one act1849: Enfant n'y crois pas !, lyrics by Henriette Chardonneau1849: La Famille !, romance1850: Les Echos de Rosine, salon opera with piano, poem by Étienne Tréfeu1864: Les plaisirs de la chasse, for male choir1864: Bonne Nuit !, nocturne à deux voix, lyrics by Eugène Roch1873: 12 Fantaisies pour hautbois et piano concertants6 Variations pour piano sur l'air de la Tyrolienneundated: La Muse comique, collective collection of ditties, songs, bawdy, pastoral, roundels, comic scenes, drinking songs and light songs with and without talking, for piano and voice, lyrics by Pierre-Antoine-Augustin de Piis, (with Étienne Arnaud, Amédée de Beauplan, François-Auguste Gevaert, Aristide Hignard, Paul de Kock, Adrien Lagard, Charles Lecocq, Sylvain Mangeant, Charles Pourny, Loïsa Puget, Victor Robillard and Jean-Pierre Solié.