Valentin Neuville

Valentin Neuville (1863 in Rexpoëde – 1941 in Lyon) was a French composer who studied organ in Brussels and was organist at Saint-Nizier Church, Lyon. His operas Tiphaine, Les Willis, Madeleine, L'Enfant, L'Aveugle were performed between 1899 and 1909 in Belgium, Germany and Sweden with success, but he was not recognized in France where his Wagnerisms were not welcomed.

Works Le Trèfle à quatre feuilles, shadow play, private performance Lyon, January 1895, public premiere Brussels March 1898 Tiphaine, Antwerp 1899, Lyon 1906 L'Enfant, 1902 Les Willis, at Rotterdam April 1903 L'Aveugle, at Kiel, December 1904 Madeleine, Lyon 1908