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Paul Lacôme
Paul-Jean-Jacques Lacôme d'Estalenx (4 March 1838 – 12 December 1920) was a French composer. Between 1870 and the turn of the century he produced a series of operettas and operas-bouffes that were popular both in France and abroad. Interest in his works revived briefly during the First World War, when they were successfully revived in Paris. Biography Lacôme was born in Le Houga, Gers, in Gascony, the only child of an artistic and musical family.D'Estalenx, Philippe"Un Gascon à Paris". ''Musique'' (French text) He became a competent player of the piano, flute, cornet, cello and ophicleide, and studied with the organist José Puig y Absubide in Aire-sur-Adour between 1857 and 1860.Lamb, Andrew"Lacome, Paul" Grove Music Online, Oxford University Press, accessed 21 June 2010 (requires subscription) He won a prize, in a magazine competition, with an operetta, ''Le dernier des paladins'', which was to have been presented at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens, but the policy of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Lacome
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Giovanni Paisiello
Giovanni Paisiello (or Paesiello; 9 May 1740 – 5 June 1816) was an Italian composer of the Classical era, and was the most popular opera composer of the late 1700s. His operatic style influenced Mozart and Rossini. Life Paisiello was born in Taranto in the Apulia region and educated by the Jesuits there. He became known for his beautiful singing voice and in 1754 was sent to the Conservatorio di S. Onofrio at Naples, where he studied under Francesco Durante, and eventually became assistant master. For the theatre of the Conservatorio, which he left in 1763, he wrote some intermezzi, one of which attracted so much notice that he was invited to write two operas, ''La Pupilla'' and ''Il Mondo al Rovescio'', for Bologna, and a third, ''Il Marchese di Tidipano'', for Rome. His reputation now firmly established, he settled for some years at Naples, where, despite the popularity of Niccolò Piccinni, Domenico Cimarosa and Pietro Guglielmi, of whose triumphs he was bitterly je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Chivot
Henri Charles Chivot (; 13 November 1830 – 18 September 1897) was a French writer and playwright, mostly known as an operetta librettist. Biography Henri Chivot was born in Paris on 13 November 1830.O’Connor, Patrick"Chivot, Henri Charles" ''Grove Music Online'', Oxford University Press, 2002 He worked, successively, as a clerk, a lawyer, an employee of the Paris-Lyon-Mediterranean railway, and later the head of that company's Paris office."Theatres" ''Le Figaro'', 19 September 1897, p. 3 He wrote his first play in collaboration with – (A Trilogy of Trousers), a comic one-act |
André Messager
André Charles Prosper Messager (; 30 December 1853 – 24 February 1929) was a French composer, organist, pianist and conductor. His compositions include eight ballets and thirty , opérettes and other stage works, among which his ballet (1886) and (1898) have had lasting success; (1897) and (1919) were also popular internationally. Messager took up the piano as a small child and later studied composition with, among others, Camille Saint-Saëns and Gabriel Fauré. He became a major figure in the musical life of Paris and later London, both as a conductor and a composer. Many of his Parisian works were also produced in the West End theatre, West End and some on Broadway theatre, Broadway; the most successful had long runs and numerous international revivals. He wrote two operatic works in English, and his later output included Musical theatre#Early 20th century, musical comedies for Sacha Guitry and Yvonne Printemps. As a conductor, Messager held prominent positions in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armand Liorat
Armand Liorat was the pen name of Georges Degas (10 January 1837 – 8 August 1898), a French playwright and librettist. Life and career Liorat was born in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, the son of Pierre André Constant Degas, a lawyer, and his wife Rose Elisabeth Hermance, ''née'' Berthault. He entered the civil service in the office of the préfecture of the Seine, and rose to be chief inspector of administrative finance. Away from his official duties he wrote song-lyrics, and sketches for cafés-concerts. For the spoken drama and the opera he adopted the pen name Amand Liorat and, either alone or in collaboration with writers such as William Busnach William Bertrand Busnach (7 March 1832, Paris – 20 January 1907, Paris) was a French dramatist. Biography Busnach was a nephew of the composer Fromental Halévy. His father was associated with David Ben Joseph Coen Bakri, to whom France was ..., Clairville, Paul Bocage, Prével, Ferrier, wrote a large number of operetta librett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erckmann-Chatrian
Erckmann-Chatrian was the name used by French authors Émile Erckmann (1822–1899) and Alexandre Chatrian (1826–1890), nearly all of whose works were jointly written.Mary Ellen Snodgrass, ''Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature''. New York, Facts on File (2004). (p.104) History Both Erckmann and Chatrian were born in the ''département'' of Meurthe (now Moselle), in the Lorraine region in the extreme north-east of France. They specialised in military fiction and ghost stories in a rustic mode Hugh Lamb, "Erckmann-Chatrian", in Jack Sullivan, ''The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural'', New York City, U.S. : Viking, 1986. (pp. 144–5) Lifelong friends who first met in the spring of 1847, they finally quarreled during the mid-1880s, after which they did not produce any more stories jointly. During 1890 Chatrian died, and Erckmann wrote a few pieces under his own name. Many of Erckmann-Chatrian's works were translated into English by Adrian Ross. Tales of super ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Delacour
Alfred Delacour or Alfred-Charlemagne Delacour, real name Pierre-Alfred Lartigue, (3 September 1817 – 31 March 1883 ) was a 19th-century French playwright and librettist. Biography In addition to his occupation as a physician, which he practised from 1841, Delacour turned progressively to the theatre. He collaborated with Eugène Labiche and Clairville for several vaudevilles Titles and decorations * Knight of the Legion of honour (7 August 1867 decree) His entry on the Base Léonore wrongly calls him ''Alfred-Charlemagne'' which was his pen name. Plays ''Le Courrier de Lyon'' (1850) was one of Delacour's noted plays. It was written together with Eugène Moreau and Paul Siraudin. The play was based on the story of Joseph Lesurques, an innocent man who was executed after he was mistaken for the leader of a gang who brutally murdered a courier. Aside from his collaborations with Labiche and Clairville, Delacour also worked with Lambert Thiboust on ''Le diable'' (1880), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Noriac
Jules Noriac, real name Claude Antoine Jules Cairon, (24 April 1827 – 1 October 1882), was a French journalist, playwright, writer, librettist and theatre director. Biography Cairon was first a journalist and columnist in many newspapers. He started successively at the ''Corsair'' in 1850, the ''Gazette de France'' in 1851, the National Assembly in 1853, then as editor of ''Le Figaro'' weekly of which he was one of the main editors. He worked simultaneously with the ''Revue fantaisiste'', the ''Gazette de Paris'', ''La Silhouette'', the ''Revue des Beaux Arts'', ''L'Univers illustré'' and became successively chief-editor of the ''Figaro-programme'', the ''Soleil'' and the ''Les Nouvelles (quotidien), Nouvelles'' (1865–66). He also wrote plays, operetta libretti and novels under the pseudonym Jules Noriac. He was co-managing director of the Théâtre des Variétés from 1856 to 1869 and of the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens from 1868 to 1879. Jules Noriac was awarded wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolphe Jaime
Adolphe Jaime, called Jaime fils, (1825 in Paris – 1901 in Asnières-sur-Seine) was a 19th-century French vaudevillist and librettist. He was the son of Ernest Jaime (1804–1884), also a playwright. Works *1845: ''Le Diable à quatre'', vaudeville in 3 acts by Adolphe Jaime and Michel Delaporte *1856: ''Les Vivandières de la grande-armée'', opérette bouffe in one act, music by Jacques Offenbach *1856: ''Lucie Didier'', by Léon Battu, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 12 January *1857: ''Croquefer, ou Le dernier des paladins'', opéra bouffe in one act, music by Jacques Offenbach, libretto by Étienne Tréfeu and Jaime fils *1857: ''Maître Griffard'', opéra comique by Léo Delibes, 3 October *1857: ''Dragonette'', opéra bouffe in one act with Eugène Mestépès, music by Jacques Offenbach *1857: '' Une demoiselle en loterie'', one-act opérette, music by Jacques Offenbach, *1859: ''Geneviève de Brabant'', opéra-bouffon in 2 acts, music by Jacques Offenbach, libretto by É ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Lacombe (composer)
Paul Lacombe (11 July 1837 – 4 June 1927) was a Languedocien ( French) composer and pianist. Biography Paul Lacombe was born in Carcassonne into a wealthy family of linen merchants. Initial music lessons were at the piano with his mother and he later studied voice, fugue, harmony and counterpoint with François Teysseyre (1821–1887), an alumnus of the Conservatoire de Paris who opened the first music school in Carcassonne in 1851.Andrieu, Martial. Retrieved 17 September 2012. Ferchault, Guy"Lacombe, Paul" ''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart'', Barenreiter Kassel – Basel, 1960, pp. 39-40. Lacombe was an admirer of the music of Georges Bizet, particularly the opera ''The Pearl Fishers''. In 1866 he began a correspondence with Bizet and asked him to help with his composition. Bizet accepted, and for two years, from 1866 to 1868, compositional advice and corrections were exchanged via post. A real friendship developed between the two as Bizet realized the enthusiasm of h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legion Of Honour
The National Order of the Legion of Honour ( ), formerly the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour (), is the highest and most prestigious French national order of merit, both military and Civil society, civil. Currently consisting of five classes, it was originally established in 1802 by Napoleon, Napoleon Bonaparte, and it has been retained (with occasional slight alterations) by all later French governments and regimes. The order's motto is ' ("Honour and Fatherland"); its Seat (legal entity), seat is the Palais de la Légion d'Honneur next to the Musée d'Orsay, on the left bank of the Seine in Paris. Since 1 February 2023, the Order's grand chancellor has been retired General François Lecointre, who succeeded fellow retired General Benoît Puga in office. The order is divided into five degrees of increasing distinction: ' (Knight), ' (Officer), ' (Commander (order), Commander), ' (Grand Officer) and ' (Grand Cross). History Consulate During the French Revolution, all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mont-de-Marsan
Mont-de-Marsan (; Gascon dialect, Occitan: ''Lo Mont de Marçan'') is a communes of France, commune and capital of the Landes (department), Landes Departments of France, department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France. Population Military installations The French Air and Space Force operates the ''Constantin Rozanoff'' Mont-de-Marsan Air Base about 2 kilometres north of the town. The base includes CEAM (the French air force military experimentation and trials organisation), an air defense radar command reporting centre and an air defence control training site. Mont-de-Marsan Air Base was formerly home to France's first operational squadron of nuclear bombers, the Dassault Mirage IVA. Sights * The Donjon Lacataye is the keep of a 14th-century castle * Despiau-Wlérick Museum (1930s sculpture by two local artists) * Dubalen Museum * Maréchal Foch's equestrian statue Culture Stade Montois Club Omnisports is the city's main sports club: Stade Montois, Stade Montoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
