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Jean Elleviou
Jean Elleviou (14 June 1769 in Rennes – 5 May 1842 in Paris) was a French operatic tenor, one of the most celebrated French singers of his time. Born Pierre-Jean-Baptiste-François Elleviou, he made his debut at the Comédie-Italienne in Paris in 1790, as a baritone in the role of Alexis in Monsigny's '' Le déserteur'', and the following year as a tenor in Dalayrac's ''Philippe et Georgette''. He went on creating some 40 roles during the next 20 years, in operas by Grétry, Dalayrac, Monsigny, Boieldieu, Méhul, Isouard, etc. His repertory also included Azor in '' Zémire et Azor'', Blondel in '' Richard Coeur-de-lion'', Almaviva in Paisiello's ''Il barbiere di Siviglia''. He sang extensively in Italy in 1795, and across France in 1795 to 1797, then returned to Paris, appearing at the newly renamed Opéra-Comique. He retired in 1813, after Napoléon I refused to increase his already huge salary. According to contemporaries, his voice was very sweet and flexible, he wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Désiré Adelaïde Charles Maignen De Sainte-Marie - Portrait Présumé De Jean Elleviou (1769-1842), Premier Chanteur à L'Opéra-Comique - P1030 - Musée Carnavalet
Désiré is a French male given name, which means "desired, wished". The female form is Désirée. Désiré may refer to: * Amable Courtecuisse (1823 - 1873), French baritone known simply as Désiré * Désiré Bastin (1900–1972), Belgian football player * Dési Bouterse (born 1945), Surinamese politician * Désiré Charnay (1828–1915), French archaeologist * Désiré Collen (born 1943), Belgian physician * Désiré Dalloz (1795–1869), French jurist * Désiré Defauw (1885–1960), Belgian conductor * Désiré Dondeyne (1921-2015), French conductor * Désiré Ferry (1886–1940), French politician * Désiré Girouard (1836–1911), Canadian lawyer * Désiré de Haerne (1804 - 1890), Signatory of the Belgian Constitution * Désiré Keteleer (1920–1970), Belgian cyclist * Désiré Koranyi (1914–1981), Hungarian-French football player * Désiré Mbonabucya (born 1977), Rwandan football player * Désiré Mérchez (1882–1968), French swimmer * Désiré Munyaneza (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny
Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny ( – ) was a French composer and a member of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts (1813). He is considered alongside André Grétry and François-André Danican Philidor to have been the founder of a new musical genre, the ''opéra comique'', laying a path for other French composers such as François-Adrien Boieldieu, Daniel-François-Esprit Auber, Charles Gounod, Georges Bizet, and Jules Massenet in this genre. Biography Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny was born at Fauquembergues, near Saint-Omer, in the former Artois region of France (now Pas-de-Calais), four months before the marriage of his parents, Marie-Antoinette Dufresne and Nicolas Monsigny. He was educated at the Walloon Collége des Jésuites in Saint-Omer. It was here that he first discovered his aptitude for music. As the eldest child, in 1749, a few months after his father's death, he left for Paris with only a few coins in his pocket, a violin and a recommendation letter, in an attempt to fur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benoît-Joseph Marsollier
Benoît-Joseph Marsollier (also known as Benoît-Joseph Marsollier des Vivetières, (Paris, 1750 – Versailles, 22 April 1817) was a French playwright and librettist. He is particularly noted for his work in opéra comique. In 1780 he also led the first exploration of the Grotte des Demoiselles. His librettos include '' Nina'', ''L'irato'', and ''Les deux petits savoyards''. List of plays * ''Le Danger de la prévention'', comedy in 3 acts and in prose, created at the Comédie-Italienne ( hôtel de Bourgogne) 28 May 1761 * ''Jenni, ou le Désintéressement'', drame de société in 2 acts and in prose (Nancy, J. B. Hyacinthe, 1771) * ''Le Connoisseur'', comédie de société, in 3 acts and in prose, by {M. le Chevalier D. G. N. auteur du drame de Jenni, (Paris, Valade, 1771) ''Le Connoisseur'': a revival wrongly seen as a creation even by Mme la comtesse Hauptoul took place at the théâtre de Mlle Montansier 13 July 1791. The play was printed by another publisher, (Pari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1798 In Music
Events *July 11 – United States Marine Band established by Act of Congress. *September 2 – Opening of the Teatro Comunale (Ferrara) in Italy with a performance of Portogallo's ''Gli Orazi e i Curiazi''. *Opening of the Teatro della Concordia in Iesi, Ancona, "one of the few opera houses in Italy from the late 1700s that has never been destroyed by fire or bombs". *Completion of the first São João National Theatre in Porto, Portugal as an opera house. * Michael Haydn takes on Carl Maria von Weber as a pupil without charge. *First edition of Niemetschek's biography of Mozart published. Classical Music *Joseph Eybler – Clarinet Concerto in B-flat major * Joseph Haydn **'' The Creation'' **''Missa in Angustiis'' *Leopold Kozeluch – Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat major *Paul Wranitzky – ''Grande Sinfonie caracteristique'' in C minor, Op. 31 Published popular music * Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) – ''Popular Cheshire Melodies'' Births *January 31 – Carl Gottlieb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Duval
Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval (6 April 1767, in Rennes – 1 September 1842, in Paris) was a French dramatist, sailor, architect, actor, theatre manager. He was the eighth member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1812. Duval was brother to the diplomat Amaury Duval (1760–1838). Bibliography * ''Les Projets de mariage'' (1790) * ''Les Tuteurs vengés'' (1794) *''La Manie d'être quelque chose'' (1795) *''Le Défenseur officieux'' (1795) *''La Jeunesse de Richelieu'' (1796) *''Les Héritiers ou le Naufrage'', comédie en 1 acte et en prose (représentée pour la première fois le 27 novembre 1796) *''Maison à vendre'' (1800) ; *''Édouard en Écosse'' (1801), en 3 actes et en prose *''Guillaume le Conquérant'' (1803) *''Shakespeare amoureux'' (1804) *''Le Menuisier de Livonie'' (1805) *''Le Tyran domestique'', en 5 actes et en vers (1805) *''La Jeunesse d'Henri V'', en 3 actes (1806) *''Le faux Stanislas'' (1809) *''Le Chevalier d'industrie'' en 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1792 In Music
Events *April 13 – Joseph Martin Kraus's ''Symphonie funèbre'' is played at the funeral of Gustavus III of Sweden. *May 16 – La Fenice in Venice is inaugurated with a performance of Giovanni Paisiello's opera ''I giuochi d'Agrigento''. *July 11–14 – The Belfast Harp Festival in Ireland brings together and records the work of most of the remaining traditional players of the clàrsach. It is organised by Dr. James McDonnell, Robert Bradshaw and Henry Joy McCracken and Edward Bunting transcribes the music. Bands disbanded *The Academy of Ancient Music (formed 1726) Popular Music *"Ye brave sons of Britain" by William Parsons *"Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin" aka "La Marseillaise" by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle Classical Music * Claude Balbastre – ''Marche des Marseillois et l'air Ça-ira'' *Ludwig van Beethoven **"An Laura", for voice and piano, WoO 112 **"An Minna", for voice and piano, WoO 115 **Rondino for oboes, clarinets, horns, and bassoons in E-flat maj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodolphe Kreutzer
Rodolphe Kreutzer (15 November 1766 – 6 January 1831) was a French violinist, teacher, conductor, and composer of forty French operas, including ''La mort d'Abel'' (1810). He is probably best known as the dedicatee of Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 9, Op. 47 (1803), known as the ''Kreutzer Sonata'', though he never played the work. Kreutzer made the acquaintance of Beethoven in 1798, when at Vienna in the service of the French ambassador, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte (later King of Sweden and Norway). Beethoven originally dedicated the sonata to George Bridgetower, the violinist at its first performance, but after a quarrel he revised the dedication in favour of Kreutzer. Biography Kreutzer was born in Versailles, and was initially taught by his German father, who was a musician in the royal chapel, with later lessons from Anton Stamitz. He became one of the foremost violin virtuosos of his day, appearing as a soloist until 1810. He was a violin professor at the Conse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1791 In Music
The year 1791 in music involved some significant events. Events *January 1 – Austrian composer Joseph Haydn arrives in England at the invitation of London resident impresario Johann Peter Salomon; here his concerts are huge successes. On March 11, the first of his London symphonies, Symphony No. 96, is premièred at the Hanover Square Rooms. On July 8 he is awarded an honorary doctorate of music at the University of Oxford and probably conducts his Symphony No. 92 in the Sheldonian Theatre as part of the ceremonials. *Mid-July – An emissary of Count Franz von Walsegg commissions a ''Requiem'' for the late Countess Anna from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. *August 24 – Official opening of the Teatro Riccardi opera house in Bergamo, Lombardy, with a production of Pietro Metastasio's ''Didone abbandonata'' set to music by multiple composers including Ferdinando Bertoni, Giacomo Rampini, Johann Gottlieb Naumann, Giuseppe Gazzaniga and Giovanni Paisiello. *September 6 – Premièr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Dalayrac
Nicolas-Marie d'Alayrac (; bapt. 13 June 175326 November 1809), nicknamed the Musician poet, more commonly Nicolas Dalayrac, was a French composer of the Classical period. Intended for a military career, he made the acquaintance of many musicians in the Parisian salons, which convinced him of his true vocation. Among his most popular works, '' Nina, or The Woman Crazed with Love'' (1786), which tackles the theme of madness and arouses real enthusiasm during its creation, premiered on 23 November at the Stroganov Palace. '' The Two Little Savoyards'' (1789), which deals with the rapprochement of social classes, a theme bearing the ideals of the French Revolution, Camille ou le Souterrain (1791), judged as his best production or even Léon ou le Château de Monténéro (1798) who by his leitmotifs announces a new genre. If he forges an international reputation, he remains nevertheless less known in the lyrical field than André Grétry. His first compositions were violin du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-François Marmontel
Jean-François Marmontel (11 July 1723 – 31 December 1799) was a French historian, writer and a member of the Encyclopédistes movement. Biography He was born of poor parents at Bort, Limousin (today in Corrèze). After studying with the Jesuits at Mauriac, Cantal, he taught in their colleges at Clermont-Ferrand and Toulouse; and in 1745, acting on the advice of Voltaire, he set out for Paris to try for literary success. From 1748 to 1753 he wrote a succession of tragedies: ''Denys le Tyran'' (1748); ''Aristomene'' (1749); ''Cleopâtre'' (1750); ''Heraclides'' (1752); ''Egyptus'' (1753). These literary works, though only moderately successful on the stage, secured Marmontel's introduction into literary and fashionable circles. He wrote a series of articles for the ''Encyclopédie'' evincing considerable critical power and insight, which in their collected form, under the title ''Eléments de Littérature'', still rank among the French classics. He also wrote several c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Grétry
André Ernest Modeste Grétry (; baptised 11 February 1741; died 24 September 1813) was a composer from the Prince-Bishopric of Liège (present-day Belgium), who worked from 1767 onwards in France and took French nationality. He is most famous for his '' opéras comiques''. Biography He was born at Liège, his father being a poor musician. He was a choirboy at the church of St. Denis (Liège). In 1753 he became a pupil of Jean-Pantaléon Leclerc and later of the organist at St-Pierre de Liège, Nicolas Rennekin, for keyboard and composition and of Henri Moreau, music master at the collegiate church of St. Paul. But of greater importance was the practical tuition he received by attending the performance of an Italian opera company. Here he heard the operas of Baldassarre Galuppi, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, and other masters; and the desire of completing his own studies in Italy was the immediate result. To find the necessary means he composed in 1759 a mass which he dedicat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
