Xavier Leroux

Xavier Leroux

Xavier Henry Napoleón Leroux (11 October 1863 – 2 February 1919) was a French composer and a teacher at the Paris Conservatory.

Life

Born in Velletri, Leroux was the son of a military bandleader. He studied at the Paris Conservatory under Jules Massenet and Théodore Dubois, and won the Prix de Rome in 1885 with the cantata Endymion. From 1896 he taught harmony there. Notable students include Eugène Bigot, Georges Dandelot, Marc Delmas, Roger Désormière, Louis Fourestier, Henri Mulet, Paul Paray, Louis Vuillemin, and Albert Wolff.

Leroux composed several orchestral and choral works, songs, and piano pieces, but he was primarily known for his operas.

Selected works

Incidental music

Operas

  • Evangéline (Louis de Gramont) (1895)
  • Astarté (Louis de Gramont) (1901)
  • La reine Fiammette (1903)
  • Vénus et Adonis (Louis de Gramont) (1905)
  • William Ratcliff (Louis de Gramont after Heinrich Heine) (1906)
  • Le Chemineau (1907)
  • Théodora (1907)
  • Le Carillonneur (1913)
  • La Fille de Figaro (1914)
  • Les cadeaux de Noël (1915)
  • 1814 (1918)
  • Nausithoé (1920)
  • La Plus forte (1924)
  • L'Ingénu (1931)

Others

  • Hymne (1914)

References

  • Don Randel: The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music (Cambridge, MA, 1996), p. 499.


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