Biography
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber was born on 29 January 1782 in Caen and grew up in an artistically inclined Parisian family. After commercial training in London he turned to music and studied composition with Luigi Cherubini. His breakthrough as a stage composer came in 1820 with a first successful opéra comique; from 1823 he worked closely with librettist Eugène Scribe, a partnership lasting until Scribe's death in 1861 that produced around 40 joint operas, including "Le maçon" (1825), "La muette de Portici" (1828) and "Fra Diavolo" (1830). In 1842 he became director of the Paris Conservatoire, and in 1852 also music director of the imperial chapel under Napoleon III. Auber died in Paris on 12 or 13 May 1871, while the city was under the rule of the Paris Commune; a Paris Métro station is still named after him today.
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