José Melchor Gomis

In both cities, he was a friend of fellow exile and composer Santiago Masarnau, whom he may have introduced to London musical life.

In Paris, Gomis wrote a successful singing method, published in 1826 with dedications to Gioacchino Rossini and François-Adrien Boieldieu.

[4] Gomis's Paris operas Diable à Seville (1831) (staged with the support of Rossini) and Le revenant (1836) gained respectful reviews from Hector Berlioz.

[5] Le portefaix, the most successful of his operas,[2] had a libretto by Eugène Scribe (originally offered to the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer).

Gomis died in Paris in 1836 of tuberculosis, leaving a number of works unfinished, including the opera Le comte Julien, also to a libretto by Scribe (and eventually set in 1851 by Sigismond Thalberg as Florinda).