Iso
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Iso (?; ?), or perhaps Izo, was a composer who remains a mystery and a curiosity remembered only as the author of two acts of the Fragments héroïques billed at the Opéra for the first time on 20 July 1759. These two acts were entitled Phaétuse with words by Fuzelier and Zémide with a libretto by Laurès (see seventeenth-century volume for Fuzelier). The abbé Laporte relates a bizarre episode involving Iso. According to this story the composer instituted a suit against N. de Lagarde in which he…