Leroux, Xavier (Henri Napoléon) (1863–1919)

Italian-born French composer. He studied at the Paris Conservatory, France, one of his masters being Jules Massenet, and gained the Prix de Rome in 1885. He became harmony professor there in 1896 and edited the periodical Musica.

Works Opera Evangéline (1885), Astarté, La Reine Fiammette (after Catulle Mendès, 1903), William Ratcliff (after Heine, 1906), Théodora, Le Chemineau (1907), Le Carillonneur (1913), La Fille de Figaro (1914), Les Cadeaux de Noël (1914), Nausithoé, La Plus Forte, L'Ingénu.

Other incidental music to Sardou and Moreau's Cléopâtre (1890), Aeschylus' The Persians, and Richepin's Xantho chez les courtisanes; cantatas Endymion (1885) and Vénus et Adonis (1897); overture Harald; Mass with orchestra; motets; numerous songs.