Alphonse Thys
| Alphonse Thys | |
|---|---|
| Born |
8 March 1807 Paris |
| Died |
1 August 1879 (aged 72) Bois-Guillaume |
| Occupation | Composer |
Alphonse Thys (8 March 1807 – 1 August 1879) was an 19th-century French composer.
Short biography
He studied harmony at the Conservatoire de Paris with Émile Bienaimé and musical composition with Henri-Montan Berton.
In 1833, he won the first Prix de Rome with his cantata Le Contrebandier espagnol. He lived two years at the villa Medicis in Rome then settled in Paris as a composer. He wrote some popular songs such as La Belle Limonadière or La Nuit au sérail.
He wrote operas for the Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique as well as mixed choirs. When he was a teacher of music, he used Pierre Galin's method and in 1873 wrote the foreword of the book Histoire anecdotique de la méthode Galin-Paris-Chevé. His most famous pupil was Edmond de Polignac.
He was Pauline-Marie-Elisa Thys's father.
Works
His abundant production includes:
- 1835: Alda, opéra en un acte, with Jean-François Bayard and Paul Duport
- 1839: Le Roi Margot, comédie à ariettes
- 1841: L'Avantage d'être goujon !, bêtise aquatique in four couplets, lyrics by Justin Cabassol
- 1842: La Discrète !, lyrics by Émile Barateau
- 1844: Oreste et Pylade, opéra comique in one act
- 1844: Marquise et soubrette, melodies, lyrics by Victor Mabille
- 1844: Le Nuage !, melody, lyrics by Marc Constantin
- 1845: L'Amazone, opéra comique in one act
- 1846: Le Distrait !, song, lyrics by Victor Mabille
- 1848: La sournoise, opéra comique in one act
- 1849: Enfant n'y crois pas !, lyrics by Henriette Chardonneau
- 1849: La Famille !, romance
- 1850: Les Echos de Rosine, salon opera with piano, poem by Étienne Tréfeu
- 1864: Les plaisirs de la chasse, for male choir
- 1864: Bonne Nuit !, nocturne à deux voix, lyrics by Eugène Roch
- 1873: 12 Fantaisies pour hautbois et piano concertants
- 6 Variations pour piano sur l'air de la Tyrolienne
- undated: La Muse comique, collective collection of ditties, songs, bawdy, pastoral, roundels, comic scenes, drinking songs and light songs with and without talking, for piano and voice, lyrics by Pierre-Antoine-Augustin de Piis, (with Étienne Arnaud, Amédée de Beauplan, François-Auguste Gevaert, Aristide Hignard, Paul de Kock, Adrien Lagard, Charles Lecocq, Sylvain Mangeant, Charles Pourny, Loïsa Puget, Victor Robillard and Jean-Pierre Solié.
Bibliography
- Clement Scott, Bernard Edward Joseph Capes, Charles Eglington, The Theatre, vol.3, 1879, p. 118
- William Hayman Cummings, Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 1892, p. 64
- Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des contemporains, 1893
- T. J. Walsh, Second Empire Opera: The Théâtre Lyrique, Paris 1851-1870, 1981, p. 339
- Procès-verbaux de l'Académie des Beaux-arts: 1830-1834, 2004, p. 255