A. Boildieu

François Adrien Boieldieu (or Boildieu), born in Rouen, France, Dec. 16, 1775, died at Jarcy, near Grosbois, Oct. 8 1834. His father was secretary to Archbishop Larochefoucauld, and his mother kept a millinery shop. His great ambition was to write for the stage. He wrote mostly operas in Rouen and Paris, but also some chamber music, but he was the greatest writer of opera comique of his day.

Dianne Shapiro/ from Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians by John Denison Camplin, Jr. and William Foster Apthorp (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1888)