Jean-Frédéric-Auguste Lemière de Corvey (1771-1832)
- La Bataille de Jéna gagnée sur les Prussiens le 14 d'octobre 1806, oeuvre 36 (1806)
Performers: Daniel Prοppеr (piano)
Further info: L’Echo des batailles
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French composer. After studies in Rennes, he received training in
harmony from Henri-Montan Berton in Paris. While pursuing a military
career, he composed many works for the stage, the most successful being
his opera Andros et Almona, ou Le français à Bassora (Paris, Feb. 4?,
1794). When Lemière returned to Paris in 1817 after his participation in
many European campaigns to resume a theatrical career, he found that
this had lost much of its impetus; he was obliged to supplement his
military pension by proofreading music and died, of cholera, in a state
of relative poverty. As a composer, he was mainly known by his
opéras-comiques and military band pieces. However, his opéras comiques,
which were mainly in one act, proved less popular than those written by
Boieldieu, Dalayrac and his teacher Berton. He also wrote chamber music,
piano pieces and romances.
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