Chelard, Hippolyte (André Jean Baptiste) (1789-1861)

French conductor and composer. He studied at the Paris Conservatory, learning violin under Rodolphe Kreutzer and composition under Gossec, Méhul, and Cherubini. He won the Prix de Rome in 1811, and studied church music in Rome under Baini and Zingarelli, and afterwards opera with Paisiello and Fioravanti at Naples, where he produced an Italian comic opera in 1815. In 1816 he became a violinist at the Paris Opéra, where he produced Macbeth in 1827. After the 1830 revolution he settled at Munich and remained in Germany until the end of his life. In 1832 and 1833 he conducted German opera in London, with Schröder-Devrient and Haitzinger as the chief singers. From 1835 to 1840 he was employed as conductor at Augsburg, finally becoming court musical director at Weimar.

Works operas La casa da vendere (1815), Macbeth (in French), libretto by R de l'Isle (1827), La Table et le logement (later German version Der Student), Mittenacht, Die Hermannsschlacht (1835).