Adolphe Adam

alt=neatly bearded white man of middle years, wearing glasses Adolphe Charles Adam (; 24 July 1803 – 3 May 1856) was a French composer, teacher and music critic. A prolific composer for the theatre, he is best known today for his ballets ''Giselle'' (1841) and ''Le corsaire'' (1856), his operas ''Le postillon de Lonjumeau'' (1836) and ''Si j'étais roi'' (1852) and his Christmas carol "Minuit, chrétiens!" (Midnight, Christians, 1844, known in English as "O Holy Night").

Adam was the son of a well-known composer and pianist, but his father did not wish him to pursue a musical career. Adam defied his father, and his many operas and ballets earned him a good living until he lost all his money in 1848 in a disastrous bid to open a new opera house in Paris in competition with the Opéra and Opéra-Comique. He recovered, and extended his activities to journalism and teaching. He was appointed as a professor at the Paris Conservatoire, France's principal music academy.

Together with his older contemporary Daniel Auber and his teacher Adrien Boieldieu, Adam is credited with creating the later Romantic French form of opera. Provided by Wikipedia
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    by Adam, Adolphe, 1803-1856
    Published 1876
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    by Adam, Adolphe, 1803-1856
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    by Adam, Adolphe, 1803-1856
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    by Adam, Adolphe, 1803-1856
    Published 1860
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    by Adam, Adolphe, 1803-1856
    Published 1991
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    by Adam, Adolphe, 1803-1856
    Published 2000
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    by Adam, Adolphe, 1803-1856
    Published 2012
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    by Adam, Adolphe, 1803-1856
    Published 1837
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    by Adam, Adolphe, 1803-1856
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    by Adam, Adolphe, 1803-1856
    Published 1853
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    by Adam, Adolphe, 1803-1856, Arensky, Anton, 1861-1906, Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827, Benjamin, Arthur, 1893-1960, Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869, Bloch, Ernest, 1880-1959, Boieldieu, A. (Adrien), 1775-1834, Bolzoni, G. (Giovanni), 1841-1919, Borodin, Aleksandr Porfirʹevich, 1833-1887, Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897, Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976, Chausson, Ernest, 1855-1899, Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990, Dohnányi, Ernő, 1877-1960, Dvořák, Antonín, 1841-1904, Franck, César, 1822-1890, German, Edward, 1862-1936, Gershwin, George, 1898-1937, Ginastera, Alberto, 1916-1983, Glière, Reinhold Morit︠s︡evich, 1875-1956, Glinka, M. I. (Mikhail Ivanovich), 1804-1857, Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893, Grieg, Edvard, 1843-1907, Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759, Hanson, Howard, 1896-1981, Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809, Herbert, Victor, 1859-1924, Hindemith, Paul, 1895-1963, Kálmán, Emmerich, 1882-1953, Lalo, Edouard, 1823-1892, Lanner, Joseph, 1801-1843, Lehár, Franz, 1870-1948, Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886, Massenet, Jules, 1842-1912, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847, Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791, Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, 1839-1881, Nicolai, Otto, 1810-1849, Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880, Porter, Cole, 1891-1964, Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953, Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1873-1943, Respighi, Ottorino, 1879-1936, Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay, 1844-1908, Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979, Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868, Rouget de Lisle, Claude Joseph, 1760-1836, Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921, Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828, Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856, Sibelius, Jean, 1865-1957, Smetana, Bedřich, 1824-1884, Soler, Antonio, 1729-1783, Sousa, John Philip, 1854-1932, Strauss, Eduard, 1835-1916, Strauss, Johann, 1825-1899, Strauss, Josef, 1827-1870, Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949, Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900, Suppé, Franz von, 1819-1895, Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893, Telemann, Georg Philipp, 1681-1767, Thomas, Ambroise, 1811-1896, Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901, Vivaldi, Antonio, 1678-1741, Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883, Waldteufel, Emil, 1837-1915, Walton, William, 1902-1983, Weber, Carl Maria von, 1786-1826, Weinberger, Jaromír, 1896-1967
    Published 2015
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    by Leuven, Adolphe de, 1800-1884
    Published 1838
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    by Leuven, Adolphe de, 1800-1884
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