Albert Grisar

Albert Grisar (25 December 1808 – 15 June 1869) was a Belgian composer, mainly active in Paris.

Born in Antwerp, Grisar's family had intended for him to pursue a tradesman's career, but he defied their wishes to devote himself to music.

He studied in Antwerp with Joseph Janssens, in Paris under Anton Reicha, and in the mid-1840s in Naples with Saverio Mercadante.

He collaborated with Flotow on L'Eau merveilleuse (1839), with Flotow and Auguste Pilati in Le Naufrage de la Méduse (1839), and with François-Adrien Boieldieu on L'Opéra à la cour (1840).

When he received a grant from the Belgian government in 1840 to study music of Belgian composers in Italy, he instead used his time in Rome and Naples to study compositional techniques of the comic opera.