Jean-Louis Aristide Hignard (20 May 1822 - 20 March 1898) was a French composer of light opera notable as a friend of Jules Verne, also from Nantes and six years Hignard's junior, some of whose librettos and verse he set to music.

Life and music

The son of a shipowner, Hignard was born in Nantes and studied at the Paris Conservatory with Fromental Halévy and won

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