Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny
Born: 17th October 1729, St. Omer, France
Died: 14th January 1817, Paris, France
Nationality: French
Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny was a French composer and a member of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts (1813).
He is considered alongside André Grétry and François-André Danican Philidor to have been the founder of a new musical genre, the opéra comique, laying a path for other French composers such as François-Adrien Boieldieu, Daniel-François-Esprit Auber, Charles Gounod, Georges Bizet, and Jules Massenet in this genre.
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