François-Adrien Boieldieu

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François-Adrien Boieldieu
The most important person in the French comic opera legacy and the leading opera composer in France during the first twenty five years of the 19th century. Boieldieu studied with Charles Broche who was learned in the tradition of Couperin. His contemporaries included Auber, Cherubini, and Berlioz. The qualities of Boieldieu's music included numerous rich melodies that were easily facilitated. They almost seem extemporaneous but he could compose melodies only through singing. Boieldieu could...
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