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Fromental Halévy
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Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy (27 May 1799 – 17 March 1862) (usually known as Fromental Halévy) was a French composer. He is known today largely for his opera La Juive. Halévy was born in Paris, the son of a cantor, Elie Halfon Halévy, who was the secretary of the Jewish community of Paris, a writer and a teacher of Hebrew, and a French Jewish mother. The name Fromental, by which he was generally known, reflects that he was born on the feast-day of that name in the French Revolutionary calendar which was still operative at that time. He entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of nine or ten (accounts differ), in 1809, becoming a pupil and later protegé of Cherubini. After two second-place attempts, he won the Prix de Rome in 1819: his cantata subject was Herminie. As he had to delay his departure to Rome because of the death of his mother, he was able to accept the first commission that brought him to public attention - a ' Marche Funebre et De Profundis en Hebreu ' for three part choir, tenor and orchestra, which was commissioned by the Consistoire Israélite du Département de la Seine, for a public service in memory of the assassinated duc de Berry, performed on 24 March 1820. Later, his brother Léon recalled that the De Profundis, "infused with religious fervor, created a sensation, and attracted interest to the young laureate of the institute." Halévy was chorus master at the Théâtre Italien, while he struggled to get an opera performed. Despite the mediocre
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Guido et Ginévra: Récitatif et Air ‘Dans ces lieux’
3932Les mousquetaires de la reine: Overture
2163La Juive, Acte IV: "Rachel, quand du seigneur"
1194La Juive / Act 4: "Rachel, quand du Seigneur la grâce tutélaire"
1185Les mousquetaires de la reine, Act III: Couplets. "Enfin un jour plus doux se lève" (Olivier)
736La Juive / Act 1: Introduction
657Act IV: Rachel, quand du Seigneur
598La Juive, Act IV: Rachel, quand du Seigneur
599Halévy: Guido et Ginévra: "Dans ces lieux"
5410La Juive / Act 1: Sérénade: "Loin de son amie"
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