Jacques Halévy
Jacques Halévy · Arts & Literature
Opera composer (La Juive)
1799, Paris, France — 1862, Nice, France
France
Jacques Halévy is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Opera composer (La Juive)
Jacques-Fromental Halévy was a French composer best known for his grand opera La Juive (1835), one of the most successful and enduring works of the French Romantic stage. A professor at the Paris Conservatoire, he taught composers including Bizet and Gounod. He was Jewish, the son of a cantor and Hebrew writer, and La Juive centers sympathetically on Jewish persecution.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Music
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Opera composer (La Juive)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Music
