Pelissier--from "The Peasant Boy"

Victor Pelissier was a French horn player and composer, who, born in France around 1755, fled that country during its revolution, went to Haiti and fled that country during its revolution, and ended up in the United States, where he composed for theatres in New York and Philadelphia.  He died, supposedly in Perth Amboy, NJ, around 1820.


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