DUBOIS, FRANÇOIS-CLÉMENT-THÉODORE.— Musician, b. at Rosnay on 24 Aug. 1837, d. in Paris on 11 June 1924. He won the first prize at Rome and was successively master of the chapel first at St Clotilde (1861) and then at La Madeleine.
Professor of composition, and later director of the Conservatory (1896–1905), he is chiefly known for his vocal and orchestral works. Among his most prized compositions are the oratorios Les sept paroles du Christ and Le paradis perdu (1878). In 1899 he wrote Le baptême de Clovis, a Latin ode on a text by Pope Leo XIII, and in 1897 the symphonic poem Notre Dame de la mer. He also composed operas for the stage.
D. is the author of a distinguished Trattato di armonia (Paris 1921), which he composed after having first completed that of Reber. Pietro Thomas