Desaugiers, Marc-Antoine
(1742–1793)> COMPOSER
Desaugiers, Marc-Antoine (1742, Fréjus; 10 September 1793, Paris), composer, came to Paris in 1774 and was not long in winning Gluck’s friendship by translating and commenting upon J.-B. Mancini’s L’Art du chant figuré (1776). He learned music through his own efforts and set operas as well as comic operas. He had Le Petit Oedipe accepted by the Théâtre-Italien in 1779, and the same company performed his Fiorine in 1780, Les Deux Sylphides in 1781, and Les Jumeaux de Bergame in 1782. The Feydeau…