Biography
Aimé Maillart was born on 24 March 1817 in Montpellier and studied composition from 1833 at the Paris Conservatoire under Fromental Halévy and Aimé Leborne, and violin under Guérin; in 1841 he won the Prix de Rome with the cantata 'Lionel Foscari'. On his return from Rome, his opera 'Gastibelza' opened the newly founded Opéra-National in Paris in 1847. His greatest success came in 1856 with the comic opera 'Les dragons de Villars', which remained part of the Opéra-Comique repertoire for decades and, in German translation as 'Das Glöckchen des Eremiten', also became popular in Germany. He was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 1860 and died on 26 May 1871 in Moulins, where he had fled during the siege of Paris.
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