Helévy, Jacques-François-Fromental-Elie
(1799–1862)> COMPOSER
Helévy, Jacques-François-Fromental-Elie (27 May 1799, Paris; 17 March 1862, Nice), composer, entered the Conservatoire in 1809 to study under Cazot but also became a student of Lambert for the piano, of Berton for harmony, and of Luigi Cherubini for counterpoint (see eighteenth-century volume for Cherubini). He won the Prix de Rome competition in 1819 for his cantata on the prescribed subject of Herminie . After the completion of his residence in Rome, he returned to Paris in 1822 to embark…