Lucile-Angélique-Dorothée-Louise Grétry (July 15, 1772 – March 1790) was a French composer.
The second daughter of the famous composer
André Grétry
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and the painter
Jeanne-Marie Grandon
Jeanne-Marie Grandon, later Grétry (1746–1807) was a French painter.
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, Lucile was trained by her father who introduced her to the court of
Versailles where she made the acquaintance of
Marie Antoinette. Lucile Grétry wrote two ''
opéras comiques'' for the Comédie-Italienne theatre. The first, ''Le mariage d’Antonio'' (1786), was written when she was just fourteen years old. It was a sequel to her father's most famous work, ''
Richard Coeur-de-lion'' (1786), and ran for 47 performances. Her father assisted her with the orchestral scoring. It was followed by ''Toinette et Louis'' in 1787, which was a failure. Lucile Grétry's marriage was an unhappy one. Her promising career was cut short by her death from
tuberculosis
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at the age of seventeen.
Operas
* ''Le mariage d'Antonio'' (''comédie mêlée d'ariettes'', premiere 29 July 1786; libretto by Alexandre-Louis Robineau, under the pseudonym "Madame de Beaunoir")
* ''Toinette et Louis'' (''divertissement mêlée d'ariettes'', premiere and only performance 22 March 1787; libretto by Patrat; both score and libretto now lost)
Sources
*Charlton, David (2001). "Grétry, Lucile" in Stanley Sadie (ed.) ''
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
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'' 2nd Edition, Vol. 10. Grove.
*Letzer, Jacqueline and Adelson, Robert (2001
''Women Writing Opera: Creativity and Controversy in the Age of the French Revolution'' pp. 26–28. Columbia University Press.
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University of North Texas
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Libraries
Background to ''Le mariage d'Antonio''
External links
* on the official YouTube channel of Orquesta de Cámara Aragonia
*
Preface to the Edition of ''Le mariage d'Antonio''by Robert Adelson (A-R Editions, 2008)
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1772 births
1790 deaths
French women classical composers
French Classical-period composers
18th-century classical composers
18th-century French composers
19th-century women composers
18th-century women composers