Adolphe Adam
French composer
Adolphe Charles Adam (French: [adɔlf adɑ̃]; 24 July 1803 – 3 May 1856) was a French composer, teacher and music critic. A prolific composer for the theatre, he is best known today for his ballets Giselle (1841) and Le corsaire (1856), his operas Le postillon de Lonjumeau (1836) and Si j'étais roi (1852) and his Christmas carol "Minuit, chrétiens!" ("Midnight, Christians", 1847, known in English as "O Holy Night").
Together with his older contemporary Daniel Auber and his teacher Adrien Boieldieu, Adam is credited with creating the later Romantic French form of opera.
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Works
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- La poupée de Nuremberg 1851
- Cagliostro
- Danilowa
- Giralda ou La nouvelle Psyché
- Giselle
- Giselle, ou les Wilis
- Griseldis ou les Cinq Sens
- Hellige Natt
- Il birraio di Preston
- Il mulattiere di Toledo
- Kom julenatt
- La Filleule des fées
- La bouquetière
- La fille du Danube
- La jolie fille de Gand
- La marquise
- Le Bijou perdu
- Le Corsaire
- Le Roi d'Yvetôt
- Le brasseur de Preston
- Le chalet
- Le diable à quatre
- Le farfadet
- Le fidèle berger
- Le hussard de Felsheim
- Le postillon de Lonjumeau
- Le toréador
- Les Pantins de Violette
- Minuit, chrétiens
- O Holy Night
- O heil'ge nacht
- O helga natt
- O, sveta noč
- Oi jouluyö
- Orfa
- Se fossi Re
- Si j'étais roi
Box sets & recent recordings
- "Classical Relaxation" with Chopin, Rachmaninov, Mozart, Debussy — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Frédéric Chopin, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Claude Debussy, Adolphe Adam, Agustín Barrios Mangoré, Albéric Magnard, Alexander Borodin, Alexander Glazunov (2026) box set · 298 tracks Spotify
- Karajan A-Z: Adam - Bartók — Johann Sebastian Bach, Herbert von Karajan, Adolphe Adam, Béla Bartók (2024) box set · 199 tracks Spotify
- "Album Leaf" - Classical Tunes — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Frédéric Chopin, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Claude Debussy, Aaron Copland, Abel Fleury, Adolphe Adam, Agustín Barrios Mangoré, Albert Roussel (2026) box set · 129 tracks Spotify
- O Holy Night — Adolphe Adam (2024) box set · 69 tracks Spotify
- Traduttore... traditore? — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Adolphe Adam, Albert Roussel, Alexander Borodin, Ambroise Thomas, André Messager, Antonín Dvořák, Bedřich Smetana, Benjamin Britten, Béla Bartók (2026) box set · 66 tracks Spotify
- Giselle — Adolphe Adam, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra (2015) box set · 42 tracks Spotify
- Adam: Filleule Des Fees (La) (Complete Ballet) — Adolphe Adam, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Mogrelia (2001) box set · 42 tracks Spotify
- Adam: Jolie Fille De Gand (La) (Complete Ballet) — Adolphe Adam, Andrew Mogrelia, Queensland Symphony Orchestra (2001) box set · 37 tracks Spotify
Box sets & recent releases via Spotify — surfaced automatically, not editorial picks.