Question: Joan Peyser wrote a biography of a French composer who was born in what year?

Context articles: The Musical Quarterly
The Story of a Great Schoolmaster
Antoine de Bertrand
The Maid of Orleans (opera)
Pierre Boulez
Connotations (Copland)
Doug McIntyre
Joan Peyser
Étienne-Joseph Floquet
Frenchman's Creek (film)

The Musical Quarterly is the oldest academic journal on music in America.
 Originally established in 1915 by Oscar Sonneck, the journal was edited by Sonneck until his death in 1928.
 Sonneck was succeeded by a number of editors, including Carl Engel (1930-1944), Gustave Reese (1944-45), Paul Henry Lang, who edited the journal for over 25 years, from 1945 to 1973, Joan Peyser (1977-84), Eric Salzman who served as editor from 1984 to 1991 and several others.
The Story of a Great Schoolmaster is a 1924 biography of Frederick William Sanderson (1857-1922) by H. G. Wells.
 It is the only biography Wells wrote.
 Sanderson was a personal friend, having met Wells in 1914 when his sons George Philip ('Gip'), born in 1901, and Frank Richard, born in 1903, became pupils at Oundle School, of which Sanderson was headmaster from 1892 to 1922.
 After Sanderson died while giving a lecture at University College London at which he was introduced by Wells, the famous author agreed to help produce a biography to raise money for the school.
 But in December 1922, after disagreements emerged with Sanderson's widow about his approach to the subject, Wells withdrew from the official biography (published in 1923 as "Sanderson of Oundle"; Wells wrote much of the text but the volume was published without listing an author) and published his own work separately.
Antoine de Bertrand (also Anthoine) (1530/1540 – probably 1581) was a French composer of the Renaissance.
 Early in his life he was a prolific composer of secular chansons, and late in his life he wrote hymns and canticles, under the influence of the Jesuits.
 He was murdered by Protestants during the French Wars of Religion.
The Maid of Orleans (Russian: Орлеанская дева , "Orleanskaja deva") is an opera in 4 acts, 6 scenes, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
 It was composed during 1878–1879 to a Russian libretto by the composer, based on several sources: Friedrich Schiller’s "The Maid of Orleans" as translated by Vasily Zhukovsky; Jules Barbier’s "Jeanne d’Arc" ("Joan of Arc"); Auguste Mermet’s libretto for his own opera; and Henri Wallon’s biography of Joan of Arc.
 Dedicated to conductor Eduard Nápravník, this work represents the composer's closest approach to French grand opera, albeit in the Russian language, notably with its inclusion of a ballet in Act 2.
Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez CBE (] ; 26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor, writer and organiser of institutions.
 He was one of the dominant figures of the post-war classical music world.
Connotations is a classical music composition for symphony orchestra written by American composer Aaron Copland.
 Commissioned by Leonard Bernstein in 1962 to commemorate the opening of Philharmonic Hall (now David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts) in New York City, United States, this piece marks a departure from Copland's populist period, which began with "El Salón México" in 1936 and includes the works he is most famous for such as "Appalachian Spring", "Lincoln Portrait" and "Rodeo".
 It represents a return to a more dissonant style of composition in which Copland wrote from the end of his studies with French pedagogue Nadia Boulanger and return from Europe in 1924 until the Great Depression.
 It was also Copland's first dodecaphonic work for orchestra, a style he had disparaged until he heard the music of French composer Pierre Boulez and adapted the method for himself in his "Piano Quartet" of 1950.
 While the composer had produced other orchestral works contemporary to "Connotations", it was his first purely symphonic work since his Third Symphony, written in 1947.
Douglas John "Doug" McIntyre (born November 11, 1957) is the host of "McIntyre In The Morning" on KABC 790 Los Angeles and is a page one columnist for the "Los Angeles Daily News".
 Known for his active involvement in local politics and his passion for jazz and the "Great American Songbook", McIntyre's background includes work as television writer-producer with credits including "Married... with Children", "WKRP in Cincinnati", "Full House", "Mike Hammer", and the critically acclaimed PBS series, "Liberty's Kids", which earned McIntyre a Humanitas Prize nomination.
 With his wife, actress Penny Peyser, McIntyre wrote, produced, and directed the feature-length documentary film, "Trying to Get Good: The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon", released in 2008.
 Doug is executive producer of Penny Peyser's 2016 feature documentary, "Stillpoint.
Joan Peyser (June 12, 1930 – April 24, 2011) was an American musicologist and writer, particularly known for her writing on 20th-century music and for her biographies of George Gershwin, Pierre Boulez and Leonard Bernstein.
 Her biography of Bernstein was, according to Leon Botstein, the first attempt at a critical account of his life and work.
Étienne-Joseph Floquet (23 November 174810 May 1785) was a French composer, mainly of operas.
 He was born in Aix-en-Provence and began his career by writing church music, before moving to Paris in 1767.
 There, Floquet made a name for himself with the requiem he wrote for the funeral of the composer Jean-Joseph de Mondonville in 1772.
 Floquet's first work for the Paris Opéra, the "ballet héroïque" "L'union de l'amour et les arts," was a triumph, enjoying 60 performances between its premiere in September 1773 and January 1774.
 The audience at the premiere was so enthusiastic that the performance had to be stopped several times because of the applause and, at the final curtain, Floquet was presented on stage, the first composer in the history of the Paris Opéra to enjoy such an honour.
 However, the arrival of the German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck in Paris later that year changed French musical taste and Floquet's style became unfashionable.
 After the failure of his next opera, "Azolan", Floquet decided to travel to Italy to perfect his musical education.
 There he studied composition under Nicola Sala in Naples and counterpoint under Padre Martini in Bologna, where he turned momentarily back to church music composing a "Te deum".
Frenchman's Creek is a 1944 film adaptation of the Daphne du Maurier novel of the same name, about an aristocratic English woman who falls in love with a French pirate.
 The film was released by Paramount Pictures and starred Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Córdova, Basil Rathbone, Cecil Kellaway, and Nigel Bruce.
 Filmed in Technicolor, it was directed by Mitchell Leisen.
 The musical score was by Victor Young, who incorporated the main theme of French composer Claude Debussy's "Clair de Lune" as the love theme for the film.