Edouard Marie Ernest Deldevez 1817-1897

[giles.enders]

Edouard Marie Ernest Deldevez  Born Paris 31.5.1817  Died Paris  6.11.1897

He was a composer, conductor and violinist. In 1825 he studied at The Paris Conservatoire principally under Francois Habeneck, Jaques Halevy and Henri-Manton Berton.   From 1825 he gained several prizes for violin playing and composition. In 1838 he came second in The Prix de Rome with his cantata 'La Vendetta.  He became deputy leader at the Paris opera in 1859 and later became principal conductor or The Paris Conservatoire Orchestra from 1872-1885. Most of his works are 'highly spirited and generally agreeable in effect'.

Orchestral

Symphony No1  Op.2
Symphony No2  Op.8
Symphony Heroi-comique  Op.15
Concert overture  Op.1
'Robert Bruce' overture  Op.3

Chamber

Piano Trio  Op.9
Piano Trio  Op.23
String Quintet  Op.22
String Quartet  Op.10/1
String Quartet  Op.10/2
Six studies for violin  Op.13

Piano

Six romances fro piano  Op.24
Six songs without words
3 Preludes
 
Song
 
Six songs for voice and piano  Op.4
Sacred vocal quartet  Op.18

Choral

Requiem Mass  Op.7 1843
Requiem Mass  1870
Requiem Mass  1877
O Salutaris, for soprano and tenor voices with Organ  Op.14
La Vendetta Op.16  cantata
Velleda, scene lyrique for soprano, chorus and orchestra  Op.17


Ballet

Lady Henriette  Op.5  (this is in 3 acts Flotow composed act 1, Burgmuller composed act 2)  1843
Eucharis  Op.11  1844
Mazariana  Op.11/2
Paquita  Op.6  1846 (revised later with additional music by Minkus)
Vert-Vert  Op.12  1851
Yanko le Bandit  Op.21

Opera

Lionel Foscari  1841
Le Violin Enchante  1848
L'Eventail   1854
La Ronde des Sorcieres

[Gareth Vaughan]

Fleisher has performance materials for two orchestral suites and the Op. 1 and Op. 3 overtures, together with the overture to Le Violon Enchante, while the full scores of the Op. 8 and Op. 15 symphonies are listed in the music collections of the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Have not located full score or parts of the Op. 2 symphony but, admittedly, have not yet been looking very diligently.

[eschiss1]

Have located reductions for some of his symphonies including Op.2, with the information that the latter was performed in 1840, in the catalog of the French National Library (which has, if not the desired scores and parts of his first symphony, still, quite a lot of his music, including too his published score ms copies/collations-from-parts of some Haydn (and attributed-to-Haydn) symphonies - listed in Hoboken - etc), the textbooks he authored, cantatas, etc. as well...

[eschiss1]

Correction: Partition of Op.2.

BTW there's also a string quintet with contrabass, op.22.

The Requiem Op.7 in vocal score and a few other works have been uploaded to IMSLP.