Xavier Leroux

Xavier Henry Napoleón Leroux (Velletri, Italy, October 11, 1863 – Paris, February 2, 1919) was a French composer.

Leroux was the son of a military bandleader. He studied at the Paris Conservatory under Jules Massenet and Theodore Dubois, and won the Prix de Rome in 1885 with the cantata "Endymion". From 1896 he taught harmony there.

Leroux composed several orchestral and choral works, songs, and piano pieces, but he was primarily known for his operas.

Operas

*"Evangéline", 1895
*"Vénus et Adonis", 1897
*"Astarté", 1901
*"La Reine Fiammette", 1903
*"William Ratcliff", after Heinrich Heine, 1907
*"Le chemineau", 1907
*"Théodora", 1907
*"Le carillonneur", 1913
*"La Fille de Figaro", 1914
*"Les Cadeaux de noël", 1915
*"1814", 1918
*"Nausithoé", 1920
*"La Plus Forte", 1924
*"L'Ingénu", 1931

References

*Don Randel, "The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music". Harvard, 1996, p. 499.