Jacques Marie Alfred Dufresne (1822, Orléans – 18 March 1863, Paris) was a 19th-century French composer and playwright.
A student of Fromental Halévy at the Paris Conservatory, he is mostly known for having written music for hundreds of songs by authors such as Jules Verne, Alfred de Musset, Alphonse de Lamartine or Victor Hugo.
He also composed operettas and opéras comiques including L'hôtel de la poste on a libretto by Philippe Gille.
Works 1851: La Chèvre perdue, poem by Lebaigue 1851: Heureuse !, mélodie, poem by Gustave de Penmarch 1853: La Chanson de Fortunio, poem by Alfred de Musset 1853: Reflets de Printemps, poem by de Penmarch 1853: Sérénade, poem by Victor Hugo 1853: Les Soirées d'automne, twelve melodies 1854: La Colombe, poem by de Penmarch 1854: Album de 10 mélodies, lyrics by Eugène de Lonlay 1854: L’Écho du lavoir !, ditty, lyrics by Eugène de Lonlay 1854: Écoute, poem by de Penmarch 1854: L’Étoile, melody, lyrics by de Penmarch 1854: La Fiancée du timbalier, poem by Victor Hugo 1854: Le Grillon, melody, poem by Alphonse de Lamartine 1854: Hélas !, poem by Lamartine 1854: Oh ! batteux battons la gerbe !, chant rustique 1854: Pendant l'orage, cavatine 1854: Le Sommeil des fleurs, melody, poem by de Penmarch 1854: Villanelle, poem by Adrien Decourcelle 1855: Les Chants intimes, collection of melodies and romances 1855: En avant les zouaves !, chanson guerrière, poem by Jules VerneThis song is included on the CD Mélodies inédites de Jules Verne, by Francoise Masset and Emmanuel Strosser (MIRARE : MIR 001). There are compositions by Aristide Hignard on the same CD. 1855: Sous la tonnelle, poem by de Penmarch, n°2 for tenor or soprano 1856: Venant de Pontoise, one-act operetta, lyrics by Eugène Mestépès 1857: La Fileuse, rêverie, lyrics by Anne Kerhalet 1857: Les Voix dans l'air, rêverie, lyrics by de Penmarch 1858: Adieu paniers vendanges sont faites, song, lyrics by de Penmarch 1858: Maître Baton, one-act operetta, lyrics by Eugène Bercioux 1860: Les valets de Gascogne, one-act opéra comique, with Philippe Gille 1861: A L'île de la Jamaïque, Haitian melody, poem by Pierre Faubert undated: Chants intimes, mater dolorosa, poem by Charles Lebaigue undated: Dieu bénit tout le monde, romance, lyrics by Lebaigue undated: Les Muguets blancs, melody, poem by Émile Lecygne undated: L'hôtel de la poste, one-act operetta, with Philippe Gille undated: La Veillée !, lyrics by Villemontez, music by Pierre Gaveaux, chanson d'autrefois, transcrite et arrangée à 2 voix
Bibliography Bulletins de la Société des compositeurs de musique, 1863, (p. 26) (obituary) (Read online) Pierre Larousse, Nouveau Larousse illustré: dictionnaire universel, 1898, (p. 870) Florian Bruyas, Histoire de l'opérette en France, 1855-1965, 1974, (p. 55) Frédéric-Gaël Theuriau, L'univers musical de Jules Verne, actes de la conférence du samedi 21 mai 2005, auditorium de la Bibliothèque municipale de Tours, 2004
References
External links Alfred Dufresne on data.bnf.fr