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HALEVY, JACQUES See also:FRANCOIS FROMENTAL See also:ELIE (1799-. 1862) , See also:French composer, was See also:born on the 27th of May 1799, at See also:Paris, of a Jewish See also:family. He studied at the Paris Conservatoireunder Berton and See also:Cherubini, and in 1819 gained the See also:grand prix de See also:Rome with his See also:cantata Herminie. In accordance with the conditions of his scholarship he started for Rome, where he devoted himself to the study of See also:Italian See also:music, and wrote an See also:opera and various See also:minor See also:works. In 1827 his opera L' See also:Artisan was performed at the See also:Theatre See also:Feydeau in Paris, apparently without much success. Other works of minor importance, and now forgotten, followed, amongst which Manon Lescaut, a See also:ballet, produced in 1830, deserves mention. In 1834 the Opera-Comique produced Ludovic, the See also:score of which had been begun by See also:Herold and had been completed by Halevy. In 1835 Halevy composed the tragic opera La Juive and the comic opera L'Eclair, and on these works his fame is mainly founded. The famous See also:air of Eleazar and the See also:anathema of the See also:cardinal in La Juive soon became popular all over See also:France. L'Eclair is a curiosity of musical literature. It is written for two tenors and two soprani, without a See also:chorus, and displays the composer's mastery over the most refined effects of See also:instrumentation and vocalization in a favourable See also:light. After these two works he wrote numerous operas of various genres, amongst which only La Reine de Chypre, a spectacular piece analyzed by See also:Wagner in one of his Paris letters (1841), and La Tempesta, in three acts, written for Her See also:Majesty's theatre, See also:London (1850), need be mentioned.

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work Halevy also rendered valuable services as a teacher. He was See also:professor at the See also:Conservatoire from 1827 till his See also:death—some of the most successful amongst the younger composers in France, such as See also:Gounod, See also:Victor Masse and Georges Bizet, the author of Carmen, being amongst his pupils. He was See also:maestro al cembalo at the Theatre Italien from 1827 to 1829; then director of singing at the Opera See also:House in Paris until 1845, and in 1836 he succeeded See also:Reicha at the Institut de France. Halevy also tried his See also:hand at literature. In 1857 he became permanent secretary to the Academie See also:des See also:Beaux Arts, and there exists an agreeable See also:volume of Souvenirs et portraits from his See also:pen. He died at See also:Nice, on the 17th of See also:March 1862.

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