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
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 comp ...
'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'Université'', "Poème héroï-comique en six chants", 1844
Comedies
* ''Une Femme de quarante ans'', verse comedy in 3 acts; Théâtre-français, 20 November 1844
* ''Jean de Bourgogne'', verse drama in 3 acts, with
Pitre-Chevalier; Théâtre-français, 7 February 1846
* ''Les Trois roses'', 1849
* ''Les Vendeurs du Temple'', "satire réactionnaire", 1849
* ''Le Château de Coetaven'', sung comedy in 1 act, with
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 hi ...
and Charles de Besselièvre; Paris, Variétés, 24 March 1852
* ''Le Chêne et le roseau'', "comédie-vaudeville", with A. Decourcelle; Paris, Théâtre Vaudeville, 21 November 1852
* ''L'Amour pris aux cheveux'', "pochade" in 1 act; Paris, Palais-Royal, 6 November 1852
* ''Les Vertueux de province'', comedy in 3 acts; Paris, Odéon, 3 October 1860
* ''Le Capitaine Roche'', operetta in 1 act to music by
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 Ver ...
, 1862
* ''Bredouille'', operetta in 1 act to music by
Paul Bernard, 1864 (unperformed?)
* ''La Mort de Socrate'', comic opera in 1 act, 1864 (unperformed?)
* ''La Bourse ou la vie'', comic opera, 1865 (unperformed?)
* ''L'Eau de jouvence'', comedy in 1 act, 1865 (unperformed?)
* ''La Laitière de Trianon'', opera in 1 act to music by
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 comp ...
(unperformed?)
Other
* ''Les Fêtes de l'église romaine, avec l'explication de l'origine de chaque solennité'' (1854)
* ''Le Livre des sacrements, avec notice historique et poème sur chaque sujet'' (Paris: C. Maillet-Schmitz, 1857)
* ''Le Diable boiteux à Paris'' (Paris: Librairie nouvelle, 1858)
* ''Le Diable boiteux en province'' (Paris: Librairie nouvelle, 1858)
* ''Le Diable boiteux au village'' (Paris: A. Bourdilliat, 1860)
* ''Le Diable boiteux au château'' (Paris: Michel Lévy, 1863)
* ''Hommes et bêtes, physiologies anthropozoologiques mais amusantes'' (Paris: Amyot, 1862)
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1867 deaths
1805 births
19th-century French dramatists and playwrights
French opera librettists
People from Montdidier, Somme