Edmond Dédé - Google Doodle celebrates Creole musician and composer's 194th Birthday

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Edmond Dédé was Creole classical musician, and composer.

He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., on 20 November, 1827, Dédé picked up the clarinet from his father, a bandmaster in a local military band. 

He switched to the violin, which soon became Dédé’s instrument of choice, as he developed into a musical prodigy. Apprenticing under prominent New Orleans musicians, Dédé left home for Mexico, to escape the increasing racial prejudice in the American South.    

He returned home in 1851, and published “Mon Pauvre Cœur.” 

In the late 1850s, he landed a position at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, where his creativity thrived. He also worked at the Théâtre de l'Alcazar, and the Folies Bordelaises. 

The melody to his 1851 composition, “Mon Pauvre Cœur” (My Poor Heart), remains one of the oldest surviving pieces of sheet music, by a Black Creole composer in New Orleans. 

Despite living in a time of severe racial discrimination, Dédé’s talent, led him to become a world-class composer. Most of Dédé’s sheet music, is preserved in the, National Library of France, and several American universities. 

Dédé died on January 5, 1901, in Paris.

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