Nicolas-Charles Bochsa

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Robert-Nicolas-Charles Bochsa (9 August 1789 – 6 January 1856) was a

Life

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The son of a

Safe from French law in London, he helped found the Royal Academy of Music in 1821, and became its secretary. He taught there, among others, the British harp virtuoso Elias Parish Alvars. When his criminal conviction was revealed in 1826, he was forced to resign. He then became musical director of the Kings Theatre, London.

In 1839, he became involved in another scandal when he ran off with the opera singer Anna Bishop, wife of the composer Henry Bishop. They performed together in North America and throughout Europe (except France). In Naples, Bochsa was appointed director of the opera house Teatro di San Carlo and stayed there for two years.

Bochsa arrived with Bishop in Sydney, Australia, at the time of the Victorian gold rush in December 1855, but they gave only one concert together before Bochsa died. Bishop was heartbroken, and commissioned an elaborate tomb for him in Camperdown Cemetery.

Operas

• Le Retour de Trajan, ou, Rome triomphante
• Les Héritiers Michau, ou Le Moulin de Lieursain
• L'Héritier de Paimpol
• Le Roi et la ligue
• Les Noces de Gamache
• La Lettre de change (English: The Promissory Note; German: Der Wechselbrief)
• Un Mari pour étrennes

Bibliography

• Michel Faul, Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, harpiste, compositeur, escroc (Éditions Delatour, 2003)
• Michel Faul, Les Tribulations mexicaines de Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, harpiste (Éditions Delatour, 2006)

Notes and references

Notes

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nicolas-Charles Bochsa.

• Free scores by Nicolas-Charles Bochsa at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
• Bochsa's tomb in Camperdown Cemetery
• Harp scores by Nicolas-Charles Bochsa from the International Harp Archives – via Internet Archive