Victor Dourlen

Victor Charles Paul Dourlen (3 November 1780 – 8 January 1864) was a French composer and music teacher at the Conservatoire de Paris during the first half of the nineteenth century.

He entered the Paris Conservatory in 1799 at the age of 19, becoming a pupil of Charles-Simon Catel (harmony), François-Joseph Gossec (counterpoint), and Benoit Mozin (piano).

Dourlen then went to Rome in 1807, and on July 14 his Te Deum for the Battle of Friedland was performed, followed in 1808 by the Dies irae, another large-scale cantata.

On his return to Paris, Dourlen produced several comic operas, all public failures, including Linnée (1808), La Dupe de son Art (1809), and Cagliostro (1810).

[citation needed] His only operatic success was Le Frère Philippe (1818) after a libretto by Auguste Duport, which was performed 91 times.