Ruolz-Montchal, Henri-Catherine-Camille

Ruolz-Montchal, Henri-Catherine-Camille , count de (5 March 1808, Paris; 7 September 1887, Paris), composer, was an amateur composer interested enough in music to study under Henri Berton , Jean-François Lesueur , and Gioacchino Rossini (see eighteenth-century volume for Berton and Lesueur). He wrote Lara (1830) for the Fondo theatre in Naples during a stay in Italy, and he has several other operas to his credit, but La Vendetta was his sole contribution to the repertory of the Opéra in Paris…