Henri Théodore Ymbert (10 July 1827 in Auteuil, Yvelines – 22 September 1894 at Bourbonne-les-Bains) was a French lawyer and composer.Library of Congress
Life and career Théodore Ymbert was the son of the dramatist Jean-Gilbert Ymbert, who also practised as a legal administrator.Geneanet Following in the family profession of law, he also studied composition under Auguste Barbereau.Auguste Barbereau biography, Musica et Memoria His musical activity in Paris over the years 1858 – 69 consisted for the most part in settings for voice.BNF data base Two works were his most successful: the music for the one-act comic opera Les Deux Cadis (1861);Les Deux Cadis, script and his Sept Fables de la Fontaine, which was preferred to Jacques Offenbach’s settings of La Fontaine's Fables when it was first performed in 1862,Frits Noske, French Song from Berlioz to Duparc, Dover Publications, New York 1970, note 293, p.429 and which continues to be performed.A performance of La Montagne qui Accouche in Warsaw on 7 May 2017
Professionally Ymbert gained his doctorate in law and practised in the Court of Appeal of Paris.Le Contemporain: revue d'économie chrétienne 1876, p.972 As well as writing on both legal and musical subjects, he also collaborated in the revision of a number of administrative reference works. Among the latter was the Dictionnaire des formules ou mairie pratique contenant les modèles de tous les actes d'administration municipal (1880)World Cat and the Dictionnaire général d'administration (1884),Archived online for which he was qualified after serving as mayor of Bourbonne-les-Bains between 1873-8 and then as a deputy judicial officer.
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