Nicolas Dezède

Nicolas-Alexandre Dezède (Lyon, c. 1740 Paris, 11 September 1798) 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. He served the Duke des Deux-Ponts from 1749 to 1790. A freemason, he was initiated at the lodge Les Neuf Sœurs in Paris.

Alessandro Di Profio, Dezède (Familie), MGG (Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart), nouvelle édition : Kassel, Bärenreiter, 1997, éd. Ludwig Finscher, vol. 5, coll. 961–963

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