부산대학교 도서관

[Alexandre] (b Liège, ?1756; d St Petersburg, 18/Jan 30, 1840). Flemish conductor and composer. In 1776 he was on the staff of the theatre at Maastricht. He directed the orchestra of the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels from 1780, was musical director and conductor of a theatre at Ghent in 1782–3, was in Lyons in 1784 and by January 1786 was conducting in a Liège theatre, where his opera Le nouveau sorcier was given. In 1787–8 he conducted French operas in Amsterdam, and from 1790 to at least 1792 he did the same at La Monnaie. When the French invaded Brussels in 1794 he and his company fled to Hamburg, encountering C.-F.-H. Duquesnoy, with whom he probably collaborated in mounting French operas for émigrés. In 1799 he was engaged to direct the French theatre at the St Petersburg court. This was the beginning of a remarkable career as a conductor and a composer of operas and ballets. Apart from his theatrical post, he conducted the St Petersburg Philharmonic Society (founded in ...