Louis Beydts (/bets/) was a French composer, music critic and theatre director, born 29 June 1895 in Bordeaux and died on 15 August 1953 at Caudéran in Gironde.
Having learnt the piano and tried some composition, at 18 he studied harmony, counterpoint and fugue with Julien Fernand Vaubourgoin, director of the Bordeaux Conservatoire, although Beydts never enrolled there.
[2] His first attempt at operetta was Le Bourreau des cœurs (unperformed), but he went on to write others: Moineau[3](originally entitled La Noce, staged at the Théâtre Marigny on 13 March 1931) with limited success.
[2] He was one of seven composers to contribute to an oratorio Jeanne d'Arc (co-sponsored by the Association Jeune-France), first performed on 28 April 1942 conducted by Charles Munch at the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire.
[2] Another writer acknowledged his "natural spontaneous melodic style strengthened by a fertile invention" and that he showed an "unerring and resourceful instinct" in setting French verse; his settings of Tristan Klingsor, Tristan L'Hermite and Henri de Regnier "constantly bewitch by their delicate melodic tracery, their suppleness and freedom of line".