Lajarte, Théodore
(1826–1890)> ARCHIVIST
Lajarte, Théodore (10 July 1826, Bordeaux; 20 June 1890, Paris), archivist, studied at the Conservatoire in Paris and subsequently composed a quantity of operettas that have not survived. He contributed Monsieur de Floridor to the repertory of the Opéra-Comique on 11 October 1880, and his ballet entitled Les Jumeaux de Bergame was billed at the Opéra on 26 January 1886. Yet it is M. Lajarte’s work as a diligent archivist and musicologist that has kept his name alive. His Bibliothègue musicale…