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Alfred Dufresne

Jacques Marie Alfred Dufresne (1822, Orléans – 18 March 1863, Paris) was a 19th-century French composer and playwright. A student of Fromental Halévy at the Paris Conservatory, he is mostly known for

Jacques Marie Alfred Dufresne (1822, Orléans – 18 March 1863, Paris) was a 19th-century French composer and playwright. A student of Fromental Halévy at the Paris Conservatory, he is mostly known for having written music for hundreds of songs by authors such as Jules Verne, Alfred de Musset, Alphonse de Lamartine or Victor Hugo. He also composed operettas and opéras comiques including L’hôtel de la poste on a libretto by Philippe Gille. Works *1851: La Chèvre perdue, poem by Lebaigue *1851: Heureuse !, mélodie, poem by Gustave de Penmarch *1853: La Chanson de Fortunio, poem by Alfred de Musset *1853: Reflets de Printemps, poem by de Penmarch *1853: Sérénade, poem by Victor Hugo *1853: Les Soirées d’automne, twelve melodies *1854: La Colombe, poem by de Penmarch *1854: Album de 10 mélodies, lyrics by Eugène de Lonlay *1854: L’Écho du lavoir !, ditty, lyrics by Eugène de Lonlay *1854: Écoute, poem by de Penmarch *1854: L’Étoile, melody, lyrics by de Penmarch *1854: La Fiancée du timbalier, poem by Victor Hugo *1854: Le Grillon, melody, poem by Alphonse de Lamartine *1854: Hélas !, poem by Lamartine *1854: Oh ! batteux battons la gerbe !, chant rustique *1854: Pendant l’orage, cavatin

Era
Romantic
Lived
1821–1863
From
France
Born in
Orléans · died 3rd arrondissement of Paris
Known as
composer, playwright
Genres
opera

Contemporaries

Composers of the same nationality whose working lives overlapped — computed across all 11,984 dated composers in this library, not taken from any single article.