Louis Deffès

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Occupation Composer

Born 25 July 1819 Toulouse Died 28 May 1900, Toulouse, France

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Louis Deffès or Pierre-Louis Deffès (25 July 1819 – 28 May 1900) was a 19th-century French composer.

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.

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

Un Triomphe à Rome (symphonic poem)

Marche funèbre for piano

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

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)

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