Jean Madeleine Marie Schneitzhöeffer (13 October 1785 – 14 October 1852) was a French composer.
Life
Born in
Toulouse, Schneitzhöeffer was a student of
Charles Simon Catel
Charles-Simon Catel (10 June 1773 – 29 November 1830) was a French composer and educator born at L'Aigle, Orne.
Biography
Catel studied at the Royal School of Singing in Paris. He was the chief assistant to François-Joseph Gossec at the or ...
at the
Conservatoire de Paris. He won second prize for piano in 1803 and then joined the
Opéra
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as a
timpanist in 1815, where (seven years later) he was made ''chef de chant''. Made a professor of choral singing at the Conservatoire, he was granted the
Legion of Honour in 1840. He died in
Paris.
Works
He composed several ballet scores for the Opéra de Paris, including :
* ''Mars et Vénus''
* ''Le Sicilien''
* ''Proserpine'' (1818)
* ''Le Séducteur au village'' (1818)
* ''Zémire et Azor'' (1824)
* ''Les Filets de Vulcain'' (1826)
* ''
La Sylphide'', for
Marie Taglioni (1832)
* ''La Tempête'' (1834)
Musicians from Toulouse
1785 births
1852 deaths
19th-century classical composers
French ballet composers
French classical composers
French male classical composers
Recipients of the Legion of Honour
19th-century French male musicians
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