부산대학교 도서관

[Alexandra ] (b Liège, 1756; d St Petersburg, 18/Jan 30, 1840). South Netherlands 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 1786 was conducting in a Liège theatre, where his opera Le nouveau sorcier (libretto by Paul Dubuisson) was given on 9 January that year. In 1787–8 he conducted French operas in Amsterdam, and from 1790 to at least 1792 he did the same at La Monnaie. It was there that his scène lyrique Les lois et les rois was performed on 15 April 1793. When the French invaded Brussels in 1794 Paris and his company fled to Hamburg, where he encountered C.-F.-H. Duquesnoy, with whom he probably collaborated in mounting French operas for émigrés. In ...