Deshayes, Prosper-Didier, approximately 1745-approximately 1815

found: Oxford Music Online, accessed 8 January 2019(Deshayes [Des Hayes, des Hayes, Deshays], Prosper-Didier; French composer, dancer and teacher)

found: Wikipedia, January 9, 2019(Prosper-Didier Deshayes; Prosper-Didier Deshayes (mid 18th century--1815) was an opera composer and dancer who lived and worked in France; in 1764 he was a balletmaster at the Comédie-Française; by 1774 he had become an assistant (adjoint) at the Paris Opéra; his first opera Le Faux serment ou La Matrone de Gonesse, a comédie mêlée d'ariettes in two acts, was first performed on 31 December 1785 at the Théâtre des Beaujolais in Paris and became a popular success; he went on to have another 18 works performed at various venues in Paris, but only two, La faut serment and Zélie, ou Le mari à deux femmes, a 3-act drame first performed at the Salle Louvois on 29 October 1791, were ever published as musical scores; he also participated in the collaborative Revolutionary opera Le congrès des rois, a 3-act comédie mêlée d'ariettes, which combined music written by Deshayes and 11 other composers and was first performed by the Opéra-Comique at the Salle Favart on 26 February 1794; he died in Paris)