Guillaume Despréaux, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French composer
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Place of Birth: Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
About Guillaume Despréaux
- Guillaume Despréaux (né Guillaume Ross en 1803 in Clermont-Ferrand, the date of death is unknown) was a French composer. Despréaux studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with François-Joseph Fétis and Henri Montan Berton.
- From 1824 onwards he worked with the Théâtre du Gymnase dramatique (formerly Théâtre de Madame) which at the time was directed by Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson.
- He appeared next to Virginie Déjazet and Léontine Fay in vaudevilles by Eugène Scribe. Despréaux won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata Herminie se Couvrant des Armes de Clorinde in 1828, while Berlioz who had also participated in the competition, returned empty-handed.
- Despréaux went to Rome in 1829 where he composed, among other things, a Requiem and a Dies Irae. Back in Paris, he composed mainly theatre music.
- His opera Le Souper du Mari was premiered at the Opéra-Comique in 1833, followed by la Dame d'honneur.
- It is not known what happened to him.
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