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Edmond Dédé

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Edmond Dédé

Birth
New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Death
5 Jan 1901 (aged 73)
Paris, City of Paris, Île-de-France, France
Burial
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Edmond Dédé (November 20, 1827 – January 5, 1901) was an American musician and composer from New Orleans, Louisiana. A free-born Creole, he moved to Europe to study in Paris in 1855 and settled in France. His compositions include Quasimodo Symphony, Le Palmier Overture, Le Serment de L'Arabe and Patriotisme. For more than forty years, he worked as assistant conductor at the Grand Théâtre and subsequently as conductor of the orchestras at the Théâtre l'Alcazar and the Folies bordelaises in Bordeaux.

Dédé died on January 5, 1901, in Paris. Many of his compositions have been preserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris.
Edmond Dédé (November 20, 1827 – January 5, 1901) was an American musician and composer from New Orleans, Louisiana. A free-born Creole, he moved to Europe to study in Paris in 1855 and settled in France. His compositions include Quasimodo Symphony, Le Palmier Overture, Le Serment de L'Arabe and Patriotisme. For more than forty years, he worked as assistant conductor at the Grand Théâtre and subsequently as conductor of the orchestras at the Théâtre l'Alcazar and the Folies bordelaises in Bordeaux.

Dédé died on January 5, 1901, in Paris. Many of his compositions have been preserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris.

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