Xavier Leroux

Xavier Henry Napoleón Leroux ( born October 11, 1863 in Velletri, † February 2nd 1919 in Paris) was a French composer.

Leroux studied at the Conservatoire de Paris under Jules Massenet and Théodore Dubois and won in 1885 with the cantata Endymion the Prix de Rome. Since 1896, he taught harmony at the Conservatoire.

Leroux wrote several orchestral and choral works, but has been known primarily as a representative of the naturalistic French opera.

Works

  • Evangéline, opera, 1895 (each performance)
  • Vénus et Adonis, opera, 1897
  • Astarté, opera, 1901
  • La Raine fiamette, opera, 1903
  • William Ratcliff, opera by Heinrich Heine, 1907
  • Le chemineau, opera, 1907
  • Theodora, opera, 1907
  • Le carillonneur, 1913
  • La Fille de Figaro, opera, 1914
  • Les Cadeaux de noël, opera, 1915
  • 1814, Opera, 1918
  • Nausithoe, opera, 1920
  • La Plus Forte, Opera, 1924
  • L' ingénu, opera, 1931
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