Name Jean Schneitzhoeffer | Role Composer | |
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Similar People Adolphe Nourrit, Herman Severin Lovenskiold, Riccardo Drigo, Cesare Pugni, Ludwig Minkus | ||
Carla Fracci and Gheorghe Jancu: La Sylphide
Jean Madeleine Marie Schneitzhöeffer (13 October 1785, Toulouse – 14 October 1852, Paris) was a French composer.
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Life
A student of Charles Simon Catel at the Conservatoire de Paris, he won second prize for piano in 1803 and then joined the Opéra as a timpanist in 1815, where (7 years later) he was made chef de chant. Made a professor of choral singing at the Conservatoire, he was granted the Légion d'honneur in 1840.
Works
He composed several ballet scores for the Opéra de Paris, including :
References
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