Nicolas Dezède

Nicolas-Alexandre Dezède (c.1740 in Lyon – 11 September 1798, in Paris) was an 18th-century French composer born from unknown parents.

Dezède presented a great many number of opéras comiques, of which several were popular, at the Théâtre italien de Paris.

A freemason, he was initiated at the lodge Les Neuf Sœurs in Paris.

His daughter Florine Dezède composed the opera Lucette et Lucas.

Alessandro Di Profio, Dezède (Familie), MGG (Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart), new edition : Kassel, Bärenreiter, 1997, éd.