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Alphonse Thys
Alphonse Thys (8 March 1807 – 1 August 1879) was a 19th-century French composer. Short biography He studied harmony at the Conservatoire de Paris with Émile Bienaimé and composition with Henri-Montan Berton. In 1833, he won the first Prix de Rome with his cantata ''Le Contrebandier espagnol''. He lived two years at the Villa Medicis in Rome, then settled in Paris as a composer. He wrote some popular songs such as ''La Belle limonadière'' or ''La Nuit au sérail''. He wrote operas for the Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique as well as mixed choirs. When he was a teacher of music, he used Pierre Galin's method, and in 1873 wrote the foreword of the book ''Histoire anécdotique de la méthode Galin-Paris-Chevé''. His most famous pupil was Edmond de Polignac. He was Pauline Thys's father. Works His abundant production includes: * 1835: ''Alda'', opera in one act, with Jean-François Bayard and Paul Duport * 1839: ''Le Roi Margot'', comédie à ariettes * 1841: ''L'A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opéra Comique
''Opéra comique'' (; plural: ''opéras comiques'') is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias. It emerged from the popular '' opéras comiques en vaudevilles'' of the Fair Theatres of St Germain and St Laurent (and to a lesser extent the Comédie-Italienne),M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet and Richard Langham Smith"Opéra comique" '' Grove Music Online''. Oxford Music Online. 19 November 2009 which combined existing popular tunes with spoken sections. Associated with the Paris theatre of the same name, ''opéra comique'' is not necessarily comical or shallow in nature; '' Carmen'', perhaps the most famous ''opéra comique'', is a tragedy. Use of the term The term ''opéra comique'' is complex in meaning and cannot simply be translated as "comic opera". The genre originated in the early 18th century with humorous and satirical plays performed at the theatres of the Paris fairs which contained songs ('' vaudevilles''), with new words set to already existing music. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1807 Births
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Gustave Vapereau
Louis Gustave Vapereau (4 April 1819 – 18 April 1906) was a French writer and lexicographer famous primarily for his dictionaries, the ''Dictionnaire universel des contemporains'' and the ''Dictionnaire universel des littérateurs''. Biography Born in Orléans, Louis Gustave Vapereau studied philosophy at the ''École Normale Supérieure'' from 1838 to 1843, writing his thesis on Pascal's ''Pensées'' under the supervision of Victor Cousin. He taught philosophy at Tours until the establishment of the Second French Empire in 1852, when his republican principles cost him his position. Vapereau returned to Paris to study law, and in 1854 joined the French bar. He did not engage in any legal practice and returned to writing shortly afterwards. In 1858, he published the ''Dictionnaire universel des contemporains'' and from 1859 to 1869 he edited the ''L'Année littéraire et dramatique''. After the collapse of the Empire, Vapereau was appointed prefect of Cantal on 14 September ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Pierre Solié
Jean-Pierre Solié (also Soulier, Solier, Sollié; 1755 in Nîmes – 6 August 1812 in Paris) was a French cellist and operatic singer. He began as a tenor, but switched and became well known as a baritone. He sang most often at the Paris Opéra-Comique. He also became a prolific composer, writing primarily one-act comic operas.Letailleur, Paulette. "Solié olier, Sollié, Soulié, Soulier Jean-Pierre" in Sadie (1992) 4: 446. Career as a singer His father was a cellist with the orchestra at the theatre in Nîmes, and Solié likewise learned to play the cello. But he also learned to sing and play the guitar, and became a choirboy in the cathedral. As he got older he began traveling to nearby towns in southern France, where he played cello in local theatre orchestras and supplemented his income by giving lessons in guitar and singing. In 1778 in Avignon he was called upon to replace an ailing tenor in André Grétry's ''La Rosière de Salency'' and made such a good impression, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loïsa Puget
Loïsa Puget (11 February 1810 – 24 October 1889) was a French composer. Life Loïsa Puget was born in Paris, her proper first names were Louise Françoise. Her mother was a singer and saw that her daughter received a musical education including study at the same school as George Sand. Her composition teacher was Adolphe Adam. After completing her studies, Puget composed and performed her own music in salons and married her lyricist Gustave Lemoine (1802–1885) in 1845. She was most productive between 1830 and 1845 – apart from some operas she composed the music for over 300 songs. Many of her songs also appeared in editions with guitar accompaniment, some of which were made by prominent guitarists such as Matteo Carcassi. In 1841 Lemoine and Adolphe d'Ennery wrote a melodrama based on Puget's most successful song ''À la grâce de Dieu'', which provided the idea for Donizetti's ''Linda di Chamounix ''Linda di Chamounix'' is an operatic ''melodramma semiserio'' in thre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Lecocq
Alexandre Charles Lecocq (3 June 183224 October 1918) was a French composer, known for his opérettes and opéra comique, opéras comiques. He became the most prominent successor to Jacques Offenbach in this sphere, and enjoyed considerable success in the 1870s and early 1880s, before the changing musical fashions of the late 19th century made his style of composition less popular. His few serious works include the opera ''Plutus (opera), Plutus'' (1886), which was not a success, and the ballet ''Le Cygne (ballet), Le cygne'' (1899). His only piece to survive in the regular modern operatic repertory is his 1872 opéra comique ''La fille de Madame Angot'' (Mme Angot's Daughter). Others of his more than forty stage works receive occasional revivals. After study at the Conservatoire de Paris, Paris Conservatoire, Lecocq shared the first prize with Georges Bizet in an operetta-writing contest organised in 1856 by Offenbach. Lecocq's next successful composition was an opéra-bouffe, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrien Lagard
Adrien Jean Joseph Marie Lagard (? in Lyon – 4 March 1878) was a 19th-century French composer. He wrote more than 200 songs and ditties on lyrics by, among others, Émile Carré, Léon Quentin, Arthur Lamy or Marc Constantin, compositions for orchestra including many quadrilles, as well as many learning methods. Works (selection) ;Songs *1865: ''Laïde et Jean Louis'', humorous duet, lyrics by Émile Carré *1867: ''Le Chiffonnier philosophe'', song, lyrics by Émile Carré *1871: ''Le 6e Étage'', song, lyrics by Francisque Rivoire *1875: ''Les abus'', humorous ditty, lyrics by Émile Durafour ;Compositions for orchestra *1866: ''L'Anodine'', polka *1867: ''Bagatelle avec solo de piston'' *1868: ''L'Âge d'or'', quadrille *1870: ''Brunette'', schottisch *1877: ''Astrée'', polka-mazurka *1878: ''L'Ami Pascal'', quadrille ;Operas *1860: ''L'Habit de Mylord'', opera, with Paul Lagarde *1868: ''Deux poules pour un coq'', opérette bouffe for 8 women *1875: ''Le Jour et la nui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul De Kock
Charles Paul de Kock (May 21, 1793 in Passy, Paris – April 27, 1871 in Paris) was a French novelist. Although one of the most popular writers of his day in terms of book sales, he acquired a literary reputation for low-brow output in poor taste. In 2021 Brad Bigelow wrote: "Today, if we set aside over-priced print on demand reprints of his ancient editions, the works of Paul de Kock haven't seen a new English edition (or translation) in at least a century." Biography His father, Jean Conrad de Kock, a banker of Dutch extraction, was guillotined in Paris 24 March 1794, a victim of the Reign of Terror. His mother, Anne-Marie Perret, née Kirsberger, was a widow from Basel. Paul de Kock began life as a banker's clerk. For the most part he resided on the Boulevard St. Martin in Paris, where he was born and lived out his life, rarely leaving the city. He began to write for the stage very early and composed many operatic libretti. His first novel, ''L'Enfant de ma femme'' (181 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aristide Hignard
Jean-Louis Aristide Hignard (20 May 1822 – 20 March 1898) was a French composer of light opera notable as a friend of Jules Verne, also from Nantes and six years Hignard's junior, some of whose librettos and verse he set to music.Patrick Barbier, "Hignard et Verne: Les Mélodies de l'amitié", in ''Voyage autour de Jules Verne'' (Académie de Bretagne et des Pays de la Loire, 2000). Life and music The son of a shipowner, Hignard was born in Nantes and studied at the Paris Conservatory with Fromental Halévy and won the Second Grand Prix de Rome in 1850 with the cantata ''Emma et Eginhard''. His first comic opera ''Le Visionnaire'' was published in 1851. During the 1850s Hignard composed four comic operas, for which his childhood friend Jules Verne provided the librettos. In 1861, the operetta ''Les Musiciens de l'orchestre'' was performed, which Hignard had composed together with Léo Delibes and Jules Erlanger (and probably also Jacques Offenbach). For a long time, Hignard wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François-Auguste Gevaert
François-Auguste Gevaert (31 July 1828 in Huysse, near Oudenaarde – 24 December 1908 in Brussels) was a Belgian musicologist and composer.N. Slonimsky, Ed., ''Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians'', 8th ed., Schirmer Books, NY Life His father was a baker, and he was intended for the same profession, but better counsels prevailed and he was permitted to study music. He was sent in 1841 to the Ghent Conservatory, where he studied under Édouard de Sommere and Martin-Joseph Mengal. Then he was appointed organist of the Jesuit church in that city. Soon Gevaert's compositions attracted attention, and he won the Belgian Prix de Rome which entitled him to two years' travel. The journey was postponed during the production of his first opera and other works. He finally embarked on it in 1849. After a short stay in Paris he went to Spain, and subsequently to Italy. In 1867 Gevaert, having returned to Paris, became "Chef de Chant" at the Academie de Musique there, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amédée De Beauplan
Amédée de Beauplan (11 July 1790 – 24 December 1853) was a 19th-century French playwright, composer and painter. Fauquet (2003), see Bibliography. Much of his family (including his father), close to queen Marie Antoinette's entourage, was executed during the French Revolution. He composed hit songs, including ''Le Pardon'' and ''Dormez, mes chères amours'', and the famous ''Leçon de valse du petit François'' (1834) sung in cabarets for over a century (in particular by ), and two opéras comiques: ''L'Amazone'', after Scribe, Delestre-Poirson and Mélesville (1830) and ''Le Mari au bal'' (1845). He also authored several vaudevilles, novels, fables and painted some pictures between 1833 and 1842. He was Arthur de Beauplan's father (1823–1890), also a playwright. Bibliography * Joël-Marie Fauquet, "Beauplan, Amédée de", in ''Dictionnaire de la musique en France au XIXe siècle'' (Paris: Fayard Fayard (complete name: ''Librairie Arthème Fayard'') is a French Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
