Persuis, Louis (Luc Loiseau) de (1769-1819)

French violinist and composer. He studied under his father, who was member of the music staff at Metz Cathedral. He became a violinist in the theatre orchestra, and went to Avignon following an actress with whom he had fallen in love. He studied further in Avignon and then went to Paris, where he appeared at the Concert Spirituel in 1787. He became a theatre violinist again, performing at the Paris Opéra, in 1793. He was violin a professor at the Paris Conservatory (1795-1802), court conductor to Napoleon (1810-15), inspector of music (1814), and manager of the Opéra (1817).

Works Stage works operas La Nuit espagnole (1791), Estelle (1794), Phanor et Angéla (1798), Fanny Morna, Le Triomphe de Trajan (with Lesueur, 1807), Jérusalem délivrée (after Tasso), Les Dieux rivaux (with Berton, R Kreutzer, and Spontini, 1816), and others; ballets Nina, ou La Folle par amour (1813) and five others (some with R Kreutzer);

Other works church music; cantatas Chant de victoire, Chant français and others.