Vismes du Valgay, Anne-Pierre-Jacques de
(1745–1819)> WRITER · ADMINISTRATOR
Vismes du Valgay, Anne-Pierre-Jacques de (1745, Paris; 1819, Caudebec), writer and administrator, was employed in the tax division of the national government of France in 1779, when he was appointed director of the Opéra for a period of 12 years. M. de Vismes’s directorship at the Royal Academy of Music was marked by a number of outstanding events, including the second phase of la guerre des bouffons and the first performances in Paris of works by Anfossi, Paisiello, Gluck, and Niccolò…