Albert Grisar, a French composer, born in Antwerp, Dee. 26, 1808, died at Asnieres, near Paris, June 14, 1869. He was sent to Liverpool to qualify himself for business pursuits, but left that city secretly and studied music in Paris under Reicha. The outbreak of the Belgian revolution soon obliged him to return to Antwerp, where he continued to practise his art, and his first productions, the ballad La folle and the comic opera Mariage impossible, made him famous and won from the Belgian government an allowance of 1,200 francs. He then took up his permanent residence in Paris. The best of his earlier comic operas, each in one act, are L'Eau merveilleuse (1844), Gilles ravisseur (1849), and Bon soir, Monsieur Pan-talon. Among his later works, in three acts, are Les amours du citable (185:5), La chatte merceilleuse (1862), and Les begayements de l'amour (1864); but one of the most popular is the one-act piece Le chien du jardinier, first performed in 1855. He had Afraja, in three acts, Rigolo, in one act, and four other new operas nearly completed at the time of his death.

His most popular ballad is Adieu, beau rivage de France.