Théodore Lajarte

[1] He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris under Aimé Leborne and soon thereafter composed a large number of operettas, none of which have survived.

After his appointment in 1873 as second librarian at the Paris Opera Library, he organized the theatre's historical scores and parts, publishing a chronological inventory of scores under the title Bibliothèque musicale du théâtre de l'Opéra in 1876[3] with a corrected and completed edition in 1878.

[1] Overall sixty-two books in nine series under the title Chefs-d’œuvre classiques de l’opéra français were issued.

He was a composer of several works for the theater, including Monsieur de Floridor, a one-act opéra comique in two tableaux, lyrics by Charles Nuitter and Étienne Tréfeu after Louis Anseaume, first performed on 11 October 1880 by the Opéra-Comique at the second Salle Favart[1] with Belhomme (Mathurin), Grivot (Floridor) and Mlle Ducasse (Thérèse).

He gave the Opéra the one-act ballet-pantomime Les Jumeaux de Bergame, first performed on 26 January 1886 at the Palais Garnier,[6] with words after Florian by Nuitter and Mérante and choreography by Mérante, with Mlle Subra (Caroline), very well received.