About Nicolas Dezède
Lived 1740 – 1792 (aged 51–52). Nicolas Dezède was a French composer and harpist.
Nicolas-Alexandre Dezède (c.1740 in Lyon – 11 September 1798, in Paris) was an 18th-century French composer born from unknown parents.
Dezède presented a great many opéras comiques, of which several were popular, at the Théâtre italien de Paris. He served the Duke des Deux-Ponts from 1749 to 1790. A freemason, he was initiated at the lodge Les Neuf Sœurs in Paris. Mozart and Beethoven both wrote variations on themes by Dezède.
His daughter Florine Dezède composed the opera Lucette et Lucas.
Main operas 1772: Julie (28 September); 1777: Les Trois Fermiers; 1783: Blaise et Babet; 1784: Le Véritable Figaro; 1785: Alexis et Justine.
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Who was Nicolas Dezède?
French composer
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Nicolas Dezède was born in 1740 in Lyon.
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Nicolas Dezède died on 11 September 1792 in Paris.
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Nicolas Dezède was a composer and harpist.
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Nicolas Dezède was French.
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