David

(da-ved), Felicien Cesar, compr b. Cadenet, Vaucluso, Apr 3, 1810, d. St. Germain-en-Laye, Aug. 29, 1876. Of precocious talent, he was educated at the Maitrise of St Sauveur at Aix, where in 1829, after three years in Jesuit college and one as theatre condr., he became mattre de chapelle; 1830 entered Paris Cons, where he studied with Millot and Fdtis, and took private le ons of Reber; 1831-33 lived with a brotherhood of St Simoniens; 1833-35 wandered with some of the brothers to Egypt and the East; the strong impre ions received were expre ed in Le dteert, “ode symphonie, 1844, which had great succe ; later he composed 7 or 8 operas, of which Lalla Rookh was perhaps most succe ful; 1869 succeeded Berlioz as member of Academy and librarian of Cons. Le disert best expre ion of his characteristic note of picturesque and melancholy quiet. DAVIES