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Cléon Galoppe D'Onquaire
Pierre Jean Hyacinthe Adonis (or Antoine) Galoppe d'Onquaire (16 April 1805 – 9 January 1867) was a French writer and playwright. Career He was born in Montdidier, the son of Louis-Joseph Hyacinthe Galoppe-Donquaire, a merchant draper. After a brief spell as a military officer, he became a writer, under the nickname his father had given him of "Cléon" Galoppe d'Onquaire. He also wrote poetry and articles in ''Mémoires de l'Académie de la Somme''. He died in Le Vésinet. Among his operetta librettos, Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin's setting of ''La Laitière de Trianon'', a salon opera in 1 act, is the best remembered, along with one song, "Ça fait peur aux oiseaux" from the operetta ''Bredouille'', set to music by Paul Bernard (composer). Works Poetry, as Cléon Galoppe d'Onquaire, or "Pétrus Noël" * ''Fumée'', 1838 * ''Feuilles volantes'', 1839 * ''Le Whist'', "poème didactique en 4 chants", 1841 * ''Mosaïque'', 1842 * ''Le Siège de la Sorbonne, ou le Triomphe de l'Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montdidier, Somme
Montdidier (; pcd, Montdidji or ) is a commune in the Somme department in the administrative region of Hauts-de-France (historically Picardy), northern France. Geography Montdidier is on the D935 road, some 30 km southeast of Amiens, in the region known as the 'Santerre'. Montdidier station has rail connections to Amiens and Compiègne. Population History The commune has existed since before Roman times, possibly corresponding to the site of ''Bratuspance''. Under Charlemagne, a donjon was built in the north-west of the town, on a chalk promontory, (nowadays the site of the ''Prieuré''). It was here, in 774, that Desiderius, king of the Lombards, was held prisoner by Charlemagne, giving the town its name (in French, ''Didier''). Around the year 948, the first church was built near the castle by Heldwide, the wife of Hilduin, first of the house of the Counts of Montdidier In 1184, King Philip II of France had the outlying buildings of the town burnt down, during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Vésinet
Le Vésinet () is a suburban commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is a part of the affluent outer suburbs of western Paris, from the centre of Paris. In 2019, it had a population of 15,943. Le Vésinet is one of the wealthiest suburbs of Paris, known for its wooded avenues, mansions and lakes. It contains many public gardens designed by French landscape gardener Paul de Lavenne, comte de Choulot. History The commune of Le Vésinet was created on 31 May 1875 by detaching a part of the territory of Chatou and merging it with a part of the territory of Croissy-sur-Seine and a part of the territory of Le Pecq. Geography Le Vésinet is located in a bend of the Seine, but has no access to the river. It is 16.4 km (10.2 mi) west of Paris and 4 km east of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. The surrounding communes are Chatou on the east, Croissy-sur-Seine on the south, Le Pecq on the west, and Montesson on the north. The ter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin
Théodore Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin or Wekerlin (9 November 1821 – 20 May 1910) was a French composer and music publisher from Alsace. Biography Weckerlin was born at Guebwiller. In 1844, he began studying singing with Antoine Ponchard and composition with Fromental Halévy at the Paris Conservatory. In 1847, he published his heroic symphony ''Roland''. In 1853, Weckerlin produced a one-act comic opera, ''L'Organiste dans l'embarras''. In 1869, he was appointed assistant librarian to the Conservatory. In 1863, he produced his comic opera ''Die dreifach Hochzeit im Bäsethal'', and in 1879 ''Der verhäxt Herbst''. These were both in Alsatian dialect. In 1877, he brought out the one-act opera ''Après Fontenoy''. In 1876, he became Félicien David's successor as librarian at the Conservatory and published in 1885 a biographical catalogue. Later he became librarian of the Société des Compositeurs. He gained great renown as a composer of choral works. He married Marie Damoreau, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Bernard (composer)
Paul Bernard (1827–1879) was a French composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi .... His best remembered work is the song "Ça fait peur aux oiseaux" from the operetta '' Bredouille'', to a libretto by Galoppe d'Onquaire (1805-1867). Songs composed my Paul Bernard: A *Air danois, Op.89 *L'amour captif B *Badinage, Op.27 *La ballade du page, Op.47 *Ballade, Op.110 *Barcarolle et chanson de 'Fortunio', Op.61 C *Ça fait peur aux oiseaux, Op.108 *Capriccio, Op.104 *La carriole *La chanson du puits *Le chant des feuilles, Op.35 *Charmant caprice *Consolation, Op.66 D *Le départ des conscrits, Op.36 E *Les elfes, Op.25 *Essais pour le piano *3 Etudes Caractéristiques *Evohé F *Fantaisie de salon No.1 sur 'Le château de la Barbe-bleue', Op.20 *La faucheuse *Fleurs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Achille D'Artois
Louis Charles Achille d'Artois de Bournonville (17 March 1791 - 2 December 1868) was a French writer, libretist and dramatist. Biography A very prolific librettist, his plays have been performed on the most important Parisian stages during his lifetime (Théâtre des Variétés, Théâtre du Vaudeville, Théâtre de la Gaîté, Opéra-Comique, Odéon, Théâtre de la Renaissance...). Works * ''Les maris ont tort'', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, 1813 * ''Pauché ou la curiosité des femmes'', comédie anachréontique, in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles, with Théaulon, 1814 * ''Le Roi et la Ligue'', opéra comique in 2 acts, with Théaulon, 1815 * ''Turenne, ou Un trait de modestie'', with F. de Bury, 1815 * ''Les visites'', tableau vaudeville in 1 act, with Armand d'Artois and Théaulon, 1815 * ''La Rosière de Hartwell'', comedie en vaudevilles on one act, with Armand d'Artois, 1816 * ''Les perroquets de la mère Philippe'', with Armand d'Artois and Emmanuel Théa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Pfeiffer
Georges Jean Pfeiffer (12 December 1835 – 14 February 1908) was a French composer, pianist, and music critic. He was a much sought-after chamber music partner in the second half of the nineteenth century in Paris. Life Pfeiffer was born in Versailles. Both his grandfather and his father Émile were piano makers. His mother Clara had been a pupil of Frédéric Kalkbrenner and Henri Bertini; at his parents' home in Paris, the Pfeiffers were regular hosts to musical salon events. Pfeiffer received his piano tuition from his mother, and he studied composition privately with Pierre Maleden and Berthold Damcke. In a self-organised concert in 1862, his operetta ''Le Capitaine Roche'' and the Piano Trio, Op. 14 were performed. At the London International Exhibition in the same year, Pfeiffer performed the piano part in his own Second Piano Concerto. Like his Franco-Irish friend Joseph O'Kelly, Pfeiffer was a partner in the piano and harp making firm Pleyel, Wolff, Lyon & Cie. Pfei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1867 Deaths
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1805 Births
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19th-century French Dramatists And Playwrights
The 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 ( MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 ( MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium. The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanding beyond its British homeland for the first time during this century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Islamic gunpowder empires fell into decline and European imperialism brought much of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and almost all of Africa under colonial rule. It was also marked by the collapse of the la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Opera Librettists
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