Maurice Ordonneau (18 June 1854 – 14 November 1916) was a French
dramatist and composer. The son of a merchant of
eau de vie , Ordonneau was a prolific author in creating theatrical works. He composed, often with the collaboration of other playwrights, composers and musicians, a great number of
operetta
Operetta is a form of theatre and a genre of light opera. It includes spoken dialogue, songs, and dances. It is lighter than opera in terms of its music, orchestral size, length of the work, and at face value, subject matter. Apart from its s ... s,
opéra-bouffe s, comedies and
vaudeville s.
During some months after the death of the playwright Jean Gascogne, Ordonneau was responsible for the drama critic at ''
La Libre Parole ''
Principal works
*1874: ''Les Rosières de carton'', comedy, with
Henry Buguet
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*1876: ''La Bague de Turlurette'', comedy with Ernest Hamm
*1876: ''Les Vacances de Toto'',
Comédie en vaudevilles , with Victor Bernard
*1877: ''Zigzags dans Versailles'', comedy, with Ernest Hamm
*1877: ''Les Cris-Cris de Paris'', comedy
*1878: ''Minuit moins cinq !'', vaudeville, with Victor Bernard
*1879: ''L'Assommoir pour rire'', vaudeville
*1880: ''Théâtre de famille'', operetta with
Gustave Nadaud
Gustave Nadaud (20 February 1820 – 28 April 1893) was a French composer and chansonnier.
Career
Born in Roubaix, Nadaud's first career was as an accountant; he took up songwriting as a hobby at age 28. His friends encouraged him, and he submi ... , with
Eugène Verconsin
*1880: ''Les Deux chambres'', operetta
*1881: ''Madame Grégoire'', operetta, with
Paul Burani
*1883: ''L'Heure du berger'', vaudeville
*1883: ''Le Réveil de Vénus'', comedy, with Paul Burani, with Henri Cermoise
*1883: ''Les Parisiens en province'', comedy with Hippolyte Raymond
*1885: ''L'Ablette'', comedy
*1885: ''Les Petites Godin'', vaudeville
*1885: ''Mon oncle!'', comédie-bouffe, with Paul Burani
*1885: ''Cherchons papa'', vaudeville, with Victor Bernard
*1886: ''Serment d'amour'',
opéra comique
''Opéra comique'' (; plural: ''opéras comiques'') is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias. It emerged from the popular '' opéras comiques en vaudevilles'' of the Fair Theatres of St Germain and St Laurent (and to a l ... , with
Edmond Audran
*1887: ''La Princesse Colombine'', opéra comique, with
Émile André
*1887: ''La Fiancée des verts poteaux'', opéra comique, with Edmond Audran
*1887: ''Durand & Durand'', vaudeville
*1887: ''Maître Corbeau'', comedy, with Hippolyte Raymond
*1888: ''La Poupée'', opéra comique after
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*1888: ''Monsieur Coq-Héron l'avoué'', comedy, with
Paul Siraudin
Pierre-Paul-Désiré Siraudin (18 December 1812 – 8 September 1883) was a French playwright and librettist.
He also used the pen names Paul de Siraudin de Sancy, Paul Siraudin de Sancy and M. Malperché.
Biography
He wrote many plays, mai ... , with
Alfred Delacour , Hippolyte Raymond and
Lambert-Thiboust ,
*1891: ''L'oncle Célestin'', opérette bouffe, with Edmond Audran and Henri Kéroul
*1891: ''La Petite Poucette'', vaudeville-opérette, with
Maurice Hennequin and
Raoul Pugno
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Biography
Raoul Pugno was born in Paris and was of Italian origin. He made his debut at the age of six, and with t ...
*1891: ''Les Boulinard'', operetta
*1892: ''La Femme du commissaire'', vaudeville
*1892: ''La Plantation Thomassin'', vaudeville, with Albert Vizentini
*1893: ''Mademoiselle ma femme'', opéra comique, with
Frédéric Toulmouche
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Theatre
*1893 : ''Madame Suzette'', operetta by Maurice Ordonneau, André Sylvane and Edmond Audran
*1894 : ''L' ... Gaston Serpette
*1894: ''La Vertu de Lolotte'', comedy
*1895: ''L'Article 214'', comedy, with André Sylvane
*1895: ''La Marraine de Charley'', comédie-bouffe, with Brandon Thomas
*1895: ''Au coin du feu'', operetta
*1895: ''La St-Valentin'', opéra comique
*1895: ''La Perle du Cantal'', operetta
*1895: ''Le Pèlerinage'', comedy, with Maxime Boucheron
*1896: ''La falote'', opérette, with Louis Varney and 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 ... Ernest Grenet-Dancourt
Ernest Louis Antoine Grenet called Ernest Grenet-Dancourt ( 21 February 1854 – 10 February 1913) was a French playwright, poet and songwriter.
Life
Born in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, after studying at the Lycée Saint-Louis, Grenet b ... Louis Ganne
*1899: ''Les Sœurs Gaudichard'', opéra comique, with Edmond Audran
*1899: ''Le Curé Vincent'', operetta
*1902: ''Madame Sherry'', operetta, with Hugo Felix
*1902: ''Le Jockey malgré lui'', opéra-bouffe, with Paul Gavault
*1902: ''L'Étude Tocasson'', vaudeville, with Albin Valabrègue
*1903: ''Le Voyage des Berluron'', vaudeville, with Ernest Grenet-Dancourt and Henri Kéroul
*1904: ''Les Hirondelles'', operetta, with Henri Hirschmann
Henri Hirschmann, real name Henri Herblay (30 April 1872 – 3 November 1961), was a French composer of light music.
Originally a student of André Gedalge at the Conservatoire de Paris, he studied under Jules Massenet for two years. His best kn ... André Heuzé
André Heuzé, or sometimes André Heuse, (5 December 1880, in Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines –16 August 1942 in Paris) was a French movie director, screenwriter and playwright.
Filmography Director
* 1906 : ''La Course à la perruque''
* 1908 : ... Robert Bodanzky
*1913: ''Le Roi des montagnes'', opéra comique
*1915: ''La Cocarde de Mimi-Pinson'', operetta, with Henri Goublier
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People with this given name
; French noblemen
:'' See the ' List of rulers named Henry' for Kings of France named Henri.''
* Henri I de Mo ... Francis Gally
Francis Gally, real name Francis Jean Mazières, (28 October 1863 Archives de la commune de Tarbes, acte de naissance n° 334, année 1863 – 20 November 1918) was an early 20th-century French actor and playwright.
Francis Gally began a career i ... References
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Ouvrages de Maurice Ordonneau Liste des pièces de Maurice Ordonneau 1854 births
1916 deaths
19th-century classical composers
19th-century French dramatists and playwrights
20th-century French dramatists and playwrights
French Romantic composers
People from Saintes, Charente-Maritime
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