Henri François Berton

Henri François Berton called Berton fils (3 May 1784, in Paris – 19 July 1832, in Paris) was an early 19th-century French composer.

Pierre Montan Berton was his grandfather and Henri-Montan Berton his father. He died of cholera.

Selected works edit

  • 1810: Le Présent de noces, ou le Pari, one-act opéra comique, music by Henri François Berton, Théâtre Feydeau, 2 January
  • 1811: Ninette à la cour, opéra comique in 2 acts and in verse, after Charles-Simon Favart, music by Henri Montan Berton, Opéra-Comique, 24 December
  • 1834: Le Château d'Urtuby, one-act opéra comique, libretto by Gabriel de Lurieu and Raoul, created on a posthumous music 14 January at the Théâtre royal de l'Opéra-Comique.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ Berton fils, Gabriel de Lurieu et Raoul, "Le Château d'Urtuby", in Le Magasin théâtral : choix de pièces nouvelles, jouées sur tous les théâtres de Paris, vol. 2, Paris, Marchant, coll. "oui", 1839, 16 p., 25 tom. en 13 vol., gr. in- 8̊ Text online

External links edit

  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainBouillet, Marie-Nicolas; Chassang, Alexis, eds. (1878). Dictionnaire Bouillet (in French). {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)