Boieldieu, Adrien François, a distinguished French musical composer of operas; author of the “Calife de Bagdad,” “Télémaque,” and “La Dame Blanche,” reckoned his masterpiece; called the French Mozart (1775‒1834).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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