| Intro | Ballet composer for Paris Opera |
| A.K.A. | Jean Madeleine Marie Schneitzhoeffer |
| Was |
Musician Dancer Composer Choreographer Pianist |
| From | France |
| Type |
Dancing Music |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 13 October 1785, Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Occitania, France |
| Death |
4 October 1852, Paris, Île-de-France, France (aged 67 years) |
| Star sign | Libra |
Jean Madeleine Marie Schneitzhöeffer (13 October 1785, Toulouse – 14 October 1852, Paris) was a French composer.
Life
A student of Charles Simon Catel at the Conservatoire de Paris, he won second prize for piano in 1803 and then joined the Opéra as a timpanist in 1815, where (7 years later) he was made chef de chant. Made a professor of choral singing at the Conservatoire, he was granted the Légion d’honneur in 1840.
Works
He composed several partitions de ballet for the Opéra de Paris, including :
- Mars et Vénus
- Le Sicilien
- Proserpine (1818)
- Le Séducteur au village (1818)
- Zémire et Azor (1824)
- Les Filets de Vulcain (1826)
- La Sylphide, for Marie Taglioni (1832)
- La Tempête (1834)