Desriaux, Philippe

Desriaux, Philippe (1758, ?; 1805, ?), librettist, has left no record of the places of his birth and death, but it is believed that he might have died in some charity ward in Paris. His first effort for the Royal Academy of Music was the libretto in one act that he wrote for Mayer’s Admète et Zulmis (1780), and, when he became secretary to the baron Tschudi, it is possible that he might have had a hand in the composition of Les Danaïdes and Echo et Narcisse, for which his employer did the…