Alexandre Pierre Joseph Doche

Alexandre Pierre Joseph Doche (Paris, 1799 – Saint Petersburg, 31 July 1849) was a French violinist and composer, conductor at the Théâtre du Vaudeville from 1828 to 1848. The son of Joseph-Denis Doche, he studied at the Conservatoire de Paris and succeeded his father as composer and conductor at the Théâtre du Vaudeville. In January 1839, he married the Belgian actress Marie-Charlotte-Eugénie de Plunkett, known as Eugénie Doche after him. In 1848 he appeared at the theatre of Saint-Petersburg but suddenly died of cholera in 1849. Works Theatre *1838: A trente ans, ou une femme raisonnable, comedy in three acts mingled with couplets, with Joseph-Bernard Rosier *1840: Bonaventure, comédie-vaudeville in three acts and four tableaux, with Frédéric de Courcy and Charles Dupeuty *1841: La Journée d’une jolie femme, vaudeville, lyrics by Adolphe d’Ennery and Eugène Cormon *1843: L’Extase, comedy in three acts, mingled with song, with Auguste Arnould and Lockroy *1844: La Polka, vaudeville, with Alexis Decomberousse and Éléonore Tenaille de Vaulabelle Songs and compositions *1842: L’Enlèvement des Sabines, quadrille for piano *1842: La Journée d’une jolie femme, grande valse brillante, ar