Léandre et Héro

Léandre et Héro is a lyric tragedy in five acts and a prologue with music by the marquis de Brassac and a libretto by Le Franc de Pompignan. Louis-Joseph Francoeur might have helped Brassac with the score, and Pierre de Morand has been described as an anonymous contributor to its original poem, perhaps because he published a lyric tragedy in one act entitled Léandre et Héro in 1750 (see seventeenth-century volume for Francoeur). The composition was never revived, but it enjoyed 17…