José Melchor Gomis y Colomer (6 January 1791 – 4 August 1836) was a SpanishRomanticcomposer.

He was born inOntinyent,Vall d'Albaida,Valencia Province.^[1]

He served as the music director for an artillery regiment during theNapoleonic Wars. An earlymelodrame voiced by Gomis was performed in Valencia in 1817.^[2]

He composed the music for theHimno de Riego,^[3] named after the rebelliousGeneral Riego (1784-1823), which has since been used as thenational anthem by various republican governments of Spain.

Gomis's political views led him to live in exile after the accession ofFerdinand VII in 1823, first in Paris and then in London. In both cities, he was a friend of fellow exile and composerSantiago Masarnau, whom he may have introduced to London musical life. In Paris, Gomis wrote a successful singing method, published in 1826 with dedications toGioacchino Rossini andFrançois-Adrien Boieldieu. In London, his choral workL'inverno was performed in 1827. In 1830, his operaAben-Humeya was performed in Paris.^[4] Gomis's Paris operasDiable à Seville (1831) (staged with the support of Rossini) andLe revenant (1836) gained respectful reviews fromHector Berlioz.^[5]Le portefaix, the most successful of his operas,^[2] had alibretto byEugène Scribe (originally offered to the composerGiacomo Meyerbeer).^[6]

Gomis was made a Chevalier of theLégion d'honneur by KingLouis-Philippe. Gomis died in Paris in 1836 oftuberculosis, leaving a number of works unfinished, including the operaLe comte Julien, also to a libretto by Scribe (and eventually set in 1851 bySigismond Thalberg asFlorinda).^[2]

• Berlioz, Hector (ed. Katherine Kolb):Berlioz on Music: Selected Criticism, 1824–1837 Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015);ISBN 9780199391950
• Dowling, John:"Gomis (y Colomer), José Melchor [Melchior]", inGrove Music Online(subscription required), accessed 23 August 2015.
• Johnson, Janet: "Rossini in Bologna and Paris during the Early 1830s: New Letters", inRevue de Musicologie, vol. 79 (1993) no. 1, pp. 67–83.
• Letellier, Robert:Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots: An Evangel of Religion and Love (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014);ISBN 9781443860840

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