sentences:  His compositions include "Quasimodo Symphony", "Le Palmier Overture", "Le Serment de L'Arabe" and "Patriotisme".For more than forty years, he worked as assistant conductor at the Grand Théâtre and subsequently as conductor of the orchestras at the Théâtre l'Alcazar and the Folies bordelaises in Bordeaux.Dédé was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the fourth generation of a free family of that city.