Grisar, Albert (1808–1869)

Belgian composer. He was intended for a business career and was sent to Liverpool, England, but ran away to Paris, France, to study music in 1830. He became a pupil of Antonín Reicha, but was driven to Antwerp by the Revolution. He produced Le Mariage impossible in Brussels in 1833, and returned to Paris, where he had further operatic successes. He studied with Giuseppe Mercadante in Naples, Italy, in 1840 and returned to Paris in 1844.

Works Opera Sarah (after Scott, 1836), L'An 1000, Lady Melvill (1838), and L'Eau merveilleuse (both with Flotow), Le Naufrage de la Méduse (with Flotow and Pilati), Les Travestissements (1839), L'Opéra à la cour (with Boïeldieu, junior), Gille Ravisseur (1848), Les Porcherons (1850), Bonsoir M Pantalon, Le Carillonneur de Bruges (1852), Les Amours du diable, Le Chien du jardinier (1855), Voyage autour de ma chambre (after Xavier de Maistre, 1859), La Chatte merveilleuse (1862), Bégaiements d'amour, Douze Innocentes (1865).