Joncières, Victorin de (1839–1903)

French composer. He began by studying painting, but set a friend's adaptation of Molière's Le Sicilien as a comic opera with such success that he entered the Conservatory. He left again after a disagreement about Wagner, whom he admired, and studied privately. In 1871 he became music critic to La Liberté.

Works operas Sardanapale (1867), Le Dernier Jour de Pompéi (after Bulwer-Lytton, 1869), Dimitri, La Reine Berthe (1878), Le Chevalier Jean (1885), Lancelot, incidental music to Shakespeare's Hamlet; La Mer, symphonic ode for mezzo, chorus and orchestra (1881); suite for orchestra Les Nubiennes, Sérénade hongroise, overture, marches and other orchestral music; violin concerto.