Charles-Frédéric Kreubé

Charles-Frédéric Kreubé (Lunéville, 5 November 1777 – Saint-Denis, 3 May 1846) was a 19th-century French violinist, conductor and composer. Biography A student of Rodolphe Kreutzer, he was admitted in 1801 into the orchestra of the Opéra-Comique, originally as first violin, became deputy conductor in 1805 and succeeded Frédéric Blasius as first chief in 1816, a position that he would leave in 1828. He authored music for opéras comiques, arrangements for operas and compositions of numerous plays for Parisian boulevard theatres of the 19th century. Works *1803: Aline, reine de Golconde, opera in three acts, by Jean-Baptiste Vial and Edmond Favières, (arrangements) *1805: Le Vaisseau amiral opera in one act, by Saint-Cyr, (arrangements) *1809: Françoise de Foix, in three acts by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly and Emmanuel Dupaty, (operture) *1813: Le Forgeron de Bassora, opéra comique in two acts by Charles Augustin de Bassompierre *1814: Le Portrait de famille ou Les Héritiers punis, opéra comique by Eugène de Planard *1814: La Redingotte et la perruque, opéra comique by Eugène Scribe *1816: Une nuit d’intrigue ou Le Retour du bal masqué, opéra comique by Jean Michel Constant Leber *1816: La J