Jeanne-Hippolyte Devismes

Jeanne-Hippolyte Devismes (4 janvier 1770, Lyon[1] — 12 janvier 1836, Caudebec-en-Caux[2]) (née Jeanne-Hippolyte Moyroud) was a French composer. She studied the piano with Daniel Steibelt and married the director of the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opéra), Anne-Pierre-Jacques Devismes du Valgay. Her only known works are a song, "La Dame Jacinthe", and an opera, Praxitėle, which was first staged at the Paris Opéra on 24 July 1800. The work was a success and ran for 16 performances. The score has not survived complete.

Sources
  • Jacqueline Letzer and Robert Adelson Women Writing Opera: Creativity and Controversy in the Age of the French Revolution (Columbia University Press) pp. 36–37
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References
  1. Archives department of Lyon, paroisse Saint-Pierre-Saint-Saturnin, année 1770.
  2. Archives department of Seine-Maritime, État civil, décès de 1836.
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