Henri François Berton Explained

Henri François Berton called Berton fils (3 May 1784, in Paris – 19 July 1832, in Paris) was an early 19th-century French composer. Pierre Montan Berton was his grandfather and Henri-Montan Berton was his father. He died of cholera.

Selected works

• 1810: Le Présent de noces, ou le Pari, one-act opéra comique, music by Henri François Berton, Théâtre Feydeau, 2 January
• 1811: Ninette à la cour, opéra comique in 2 acts and in verse, after Charles-Simon Favart, music by Henri Montan Berton, Opéra-Comique, 24 December
• 1834: Le Château d'Urtuby, one-act opéra comique, libretto by Gabriel de Lurieu and Raoul, created on a posthumous music 14 January at the Théâtre royal de l'Opéra-Comique.^[1]

External links

• Henri Berton on

Notes and References

1. Berton fils, Gabriel de Lurieu et Raoul, "Le Château d'Urtuby", in Le Magasin théâtral : choix de pièces nouvelles, jouées sur tous les théâtres de Paris, vol. 2, Paris, Marchant, coll. "oui", 1839, 16 p., 25 tom. en 13 vol., gr. in- 8̊ Text online